# Example: Research Brief from Web Sources and URLs

**Use case:** 

Run Research Brief from Web Sources and URLs with a small, ready-to-copy input. Turn a research question and public source URLs into a cited Markdown brief and source records. The Actor can also search for sources. If synthesis fails, it keeps an evidence-only brief and labels the failure.

## Input

```json
{
  "question": "What are the main approaches to reducing hallucination in LLM-based agents?",
  "depth": "quick",
  "sourceUrls": [
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation"
  ],
  "search": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "id": {
    "label": "Citation",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "status": {
    "label": "Status",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "published": {
    "label": "Published",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "error": {
    "label": "Error",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [AI Web Research Assistant with Citations](https://apify.com/physealabs/research-brief.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/physealabs/research-brief.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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