diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fef0310..28079ec 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "accesskit_consumer",
  "atspi-common",
  "serde",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "zvariant",
 ]
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ndk-context",
  "ndk-sys 0.5.0+25.2.9519653",
  "num_enum 0.7.2",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "secrecy",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-util",
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "polling 3.5.0",
  "rustix 0.38.31",
  "slab",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2087,6 +2087,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futf"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df420e2e84819663797d1ec6544b13c5be84629e7bb00dc960d6917db2987843"
+dependencies = [
+ "mac",
+ "new_debug_unreachable",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures"
 version = "0.3.30"
@@ -2478,6 +2488,30 @@ version = "3.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "62adaabb884c94955b19907d60019f4e145d091c75345379e70d1ee696f7854f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "html2text"
+version = "0.15.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ccdcacfbf50bfa32830312fe5cef296925e1a04ace93c579e4c94f5045805d06"
+dependencies = [
+ "html5ever",
+ "tendril",
+ "thiserror 2.0.12",
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "html5ever"
+version = "0.31.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "953cbbe631aae7fc0a112702ad5d3aaf09da38beaf45ea84610d6e1c358f569c"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "mac",
+ "markup5ever",
+ "match_token",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "http"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -2725,7 +2759,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rowan",
  "smol_str",
  "strum",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "url",
 ]
 
@@ -3156,7 +3190,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "combine",
  "jni-sys",
  "log",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "walkdir",
 ]
 
@@ -3170,7 +3204,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "combine",
  "jni-sys",
  "log",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "walkdir",
 ]
 
@@ -3185,7 +3219,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "combine",
  "jni-sys",
  "log",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "walkdir",
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
@@ -3440,6 +3474,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "num-traits",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mac"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c41e0c4fef86961ac6d6f8a82609f55f31b05e4fce149ac5710e439df7619ba4"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "mach2"
 version = "0.4.2"
@@ -3458,6 +3498,28 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "markup5ever"
+version = "0.16.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d0a8096766c229e8c88a3900c9b44b7e06aa7f7343cc229158c3e58ef8f9973a"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "tendril",
+ "web_atoms",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "match_token"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "88a9689d8d44bf9964484516275f5cd4c9b59457a6940c1d5d0ecbb94510a36b"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
 version = "2.7.1"
@@ -3596,7 +3658,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ndk-sys 0.4.1+23.1.7779620",
  "num_enum 0.5.11",
  "raw-window-handle 0.5.2",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3612,7 +3674,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "num_enum 0.7.2",
  "raw-window-handle 0.5.2",
  "raw-window-handle 0.6.0",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3639,6 +3701,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "jni-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "new_debug_unreachable"
+version = "1.0.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "650eef8c711430f1a879fdd01d4745a7deea475becfb90269c06775983bbf086"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nix"
 version = "0.24.3"
@@ -4041,6 +4109,44 @@ version = "2.3.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e3148f5046208a5d56bcfc03053e3ca6334e51da8dfb19b6cdc8b306fae3283e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "phf"
+version = "0.11.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1fd6780a80ae0c52cc120a26a1a42c1ae51b247a253e4e06113d23d2c2edd078"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_shared",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_codegen"
+version = "0.11.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "aef8048c789fa5e851558d709946d6d79a8ff88c0440c587967f8e94bfb1216a"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_generator",
+ "phf_shared",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_generator"
+version = "0.11.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3c80231409c20246a13fddb31776fb942c38553c51e871f8cbd687a4cfb5843d"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_shared",
+ "rand",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "phf_shared"
+version = "0.11.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "67eabc2ef2a60eb7faa00097bd1ffdb5bd28e62bf39990626a582201b7a754e5"
+dependencies = [
+ "siphasher 1.0.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pico-args"
 version = "0.5.0"
@@ -4175,6 +4281,12 @@ version = "0.2.17"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5b40af805b3121feab8a3c29f04d8ad262fa8e0561883e7653e024ae4479e6de"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "precomputed-hash"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "925383efa346730478fb4838dbe9137d2a47675ad789c546d150a6e1dd4ab31c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "prettyplease"
 version = "0.2.16"
@@ -4269,6 +4381,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "flume",
  "futures",
  "hound",
+ "html2text",
  "humantime",
  "once_cell",
  "open",
@@ -4285,7 +4398,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing",
  "tracing-appender",
  "tracing-subscriber",
- "urlencoding",
  "uuid",
  "windows 0.52.0",
 ]
@@ -4312,7 +4424,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustc-hash 2.0.0",
  "rustls",
  "socket2 0.5.6",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
 ]
@@ -4329,7 +4441,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustc-hash 2.0.0",
  "rustls",
  "slab",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "tinyvec",
  "tracing",
 ]
@@ -4461,7 +4573,7 @@ checksum = "ba009ff324d1fc1b900bd1fdb31564febe58a8ccc8a6fdbb93b543d33b13ca43"
 dependencies = [
  "getrandom",
  "libredox 0.1.3",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4559,7 +4671,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "nom",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "reqwest",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4991,6 +5103,12 @@ version = "0.3.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "38b58827f4464d87d377d175e90bf58eb00fd8716ff0a62f80356b5e61555d0d"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "siphasher"
+version = "1.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "56199f7ddabf13fe5074ce809e7d3f42b42ae711800501b5b16ea82ad029c39d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "skia-bindings"
 version = "0.70.0"
@@ -5054,7 +5172,7 @@ checksum = "ebf98969a520e19ec675435b8c21b883d4a06489947e137bbd30859b50ad0c36"
 dependencies = [
  "i-slint-compiler",
  "spin_on",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "toml_edit 0.21.1",
 ]
 
@@ -5099,7 +5217,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "memmap2 0.9.4",
  "rustix 0.38.31",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "wayland-backend",
  "wayland-client",
  "wayland-csd-frame",
@@ -5219,6 +5337,31 @@ dependencies = [
  "float-cmp",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "string_cache"
+version = "0.8.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bf776ba3fa74f83bf4b63c3dcbbf82173db2632ed8452cb2d891d33f459de70f"
+dependencies = [
+ "new_debug_unreachable",
+ "parking_lot",
+ "phf_shared",
+ "precomputed-hash",
+ "serde",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "string_cache_codegen"
+version = "0.5.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c711928715f1fe0fe509c53b43e993a9a557babc2d0a3567d0a3006f1ac931a0"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf_generator",
+ "phf_shared",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -5260,7 +5403,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6e44e288cd960318917cbd540340968b90becc8bc81f171345d706e7a89d9d70"
 dependencies = [
  "kurbo",
- "siphasher",
+ "siphasher 0.3.11",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5412,6 +5555,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tendril"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d24a120c5fc464a3458240ee02c299ebcb9d67b5249c8848b09d639dca8d7bb0"
+dependencies = [
+ "futf",
+ "mac",
+ "utf-8",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "termcolor"
 version = "1.4.1"
@@ -5433,7 +5587,16 @@ version = "1.0.68"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "02dd99dc800bbb97186339685293e1cc5d9df1f8fae2d0aecd9ff1c77efea892"
 dependencies = [
- "thiserror-impl",
+ "thiserror-impl 1.0.68",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "thiserror"
+version = "2.0.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "567b8a2dae586314f7be2a752ec7474332959c6460e02bde30d702a66d488708"
+dependencies = [
+ "thiserror-impl 2.0.12",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5447,6 +5610,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.87",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "thiserror-impl"
+version = "2.0.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7f7cf42b4507d8ea322120659672cf1b9dbb93f8f2d4ecfd6e51350ff5b17a1d"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.87",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "thread_local"
 version = "1.1.8"
@@ -5716,7 +5890,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3566e8ce28cc0a3fe42519fc80e6b4c943cc4c8cef275620eb8dac2d3d4e06cf"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-channel",
- "thiserror",
+ "thiserror 1.0.68",
  "time",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
@@ -5879,6 +6053,12 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b1d386ff53b415b7fe27b50bb44679e2cc4660272694b7b6f3326d8480823a94"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4a1a07cc7db3810833284e8d372ccdc6da29741639ecc70c9ec107df0fa6154c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-xid"
 version = "0.2.4"
@@ -5936,7 +6116,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "roxmltree",
  "simplecss",
- "siphasher",
+ "siphasher 0.3.11",
  "svgtypes",
  "usvg-tree",
 ]
@@ -5968,6 +6148,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tiny-skia-path",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf-8"
+version = "0.7.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "09cc8ee72d2a9becf2f2febe0205bbed8fc6615b7cb429ad062dc7b7ddd036a9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8_iter"
 version = "1.0.4"
@@ -6285,6 +6471,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "web_atoms"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "57ffde1dc01240bdf9992e3205668b235e59421fd085e8a317ed98da0178d414"
+dependencies = [
+ "phf",
+ "phf_codegen",
+ "string_cache",
+ "string_cache_codegen",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "weezl"
 version = "0.1.8"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7c8db45..cf4fbba 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ windows = { version = "0.52.0", features = [
     "Win32_Media_Audio_Endpoints",
 ] }
 duckduckgo_search = "0.1.3"
-urlencoding = "2.1"
+html2text = "0.15.1"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 10983b0..a772c54 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ mod windows_volume;
 use tracing::{debug, error, info, instrument, warn};
 use tracing_appender::rolling::{RollingFileAppender, Rotation};
 use duckduckgo_search::DuckDuckGoSearch;
-use urlencoding::encode;
 
 use crate::speakstream::ss::SpeakStream;
 
@@ -410,6 +409,18 @@ fn call_fn(
             }
         }
 
+        "open_url" => {
+            let args: serde_json::Value = serde_json::from_str(fn_args).unwrap();
+            let url = args["url"].as_str().unwrap_or("");
+            match tokio::runtime::Runtime::new() {
+                Ok(rt) => match rt.block_on(open_url(url)) {
+                    Ok(content) => Some(content),
+                    Err(err) => Some(format!("Failed to open url: {}", err)),
+                },
+                Err(err) => Some(format!("Failed to create runtime: {}", err)),
+            }
+        }
+
         "get_location" => match tokio::runtime::Runtime::new() {
             Ok(rt) => match rt.block_on(get_location()) {
                 Ok(loc) => Some(format!("Approximate location: {}", loc)),
@@ -847,8 +858,7 @@ async fn web_search(query: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
     }
     println!("{}{}", "search query: ".purple(), query);
     let ddg = DuckDuckGoSearch::new();
-    let encoded_query = encode(query);
-    match ddg.search(&encoded_query).await {
+    match ddg.search(query).await {
         Ok(results) => {
             println!("{}{:?}", "raw web search results: ".purple(), results);
             if results.is_empty() {
@@ -896,6 +906,30 @@ async fn get_location() -> Result<String, String> {
     ))
 }
 
+async fn open_url(url: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
+    if url.trim().is_empty() {
+        return Err("empty url".into());
+    }
+
+    let resp = reqwest::get(url)
+        .await
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Request failed: {}", e))?;
+
+    if !resp.status().is_success() {
+        return Err(format!("Request failed with status: {}", resp.status()));
+    }
+
+    let html = resp
+        .text()
+        .await
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to read response: {}", e))?;
+
+    let text = html2text::from_read(html.as_bytes(), 80)
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to parse html: {}", e))?;
+
+    Ok(text.chars().take(2000).collect())
+}
+
 fn get_currently_active_log_file() -> Option<PathBuf> {
     let mut entries: Vec<_> = fs::read_dir(&*LOGS_DIR)
         .expect("Failed to read directory")
@@ -1461,6 +1495,16 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
                                     }))
                                     .build().unwrap(),
 
+                                ChatCompletionFunctionsArgs::default()
+                                    .name("open_url")
+                                    .description("Fetches a web page and returns plain text content.")
+                                    .parameters(json!({
+                                        "type": "object",
+                                        "properties": {"url": {"type": "string"}},
+                                        "required": ["url"],
+                                    }))
+                                    .build().unwrap(),
+
                                 ChatCompletionFunctionsArgs::default()
                                     .name("set_timer_at")
                                     .description("Sets a timer to go off at a specific time. Pass the time as rfc3339 datetime string. Example: \"2024-12-04T00:44:00-08:00\". The description field is optional, add descriptions that will tell you what to remind the user to do, if anything, after the timer goes off.")