Update helper_functions_api.py

helper_functions_api.py

@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ def fetch_and_extract_content(data_format, urls, query):
 
 @retry(tries=3, delay=0.25)
 def search_brave(query, num_results=5):
-    cleaned_query = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9]+', '', query)
+    cleaned_query = query #re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9]+', '', query)
     search_query = together_response(cleaned_query, model=llm_default_small, SysPrompt=SysPromptSearch, max_tokens = 25).strip()
-    cleaned_search_query = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9*]+', '', search_query)
+    cleaned_search_query = query #re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9*]+', '', search_query)
     brave = Brave(BRAVE_API_KEY)
     search_results = brave.search(q=cleaned_search_query, count=num_results)
     return [url.__str__() for url in search_results.urls],cleaned_search_query