web-search-hub
Use this skill when users need to search the web for information, news, images, or videos. Triggers include: requests to "search for", "find information about", "look up", "what's the latest on", or any request requiring current web content. Also use for research tasks, fact-checking, finding visual resources, or gathering recent news. Requires OpenClawCLI installation from clawhub.ai. Do NOT use when Claude's built-in web_search tool is more appropriate for simple queries.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anisafifi/web-search-hubWhat This Skill Does
The web-search-hub skill provides OpenClaw agents with the capability to perform sophisticated web queries directly via the DuckDuckGo API. Unlike basic searching, this skill offers granular control over search parameters, including content filtering for news, images, and videos. It is engineered for precision, allowing users to fetch specific data types, restrict results by time frames, and define regional search constraints, making it an essential utility for developers and researchers who need up-to-date, reliable information extracted into manageable formats.
Installation
To utilize this skill, you must first ensure OpenClawCLI is installed from clawhub.ai. Once installed, run the command clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anisafifi/web-search-hub. After the skill is added, ensure you have the necessary dependencies by running pip install duckduckgo-search in your environment. We highly recommend using a virtual environment (e.g., python -m venv venv) to avoid permission conflicts and system-wide installation issues. Never use --break-system-packages during setup as this can compromise your host system's integrity.
Use Cases
This skill is perfect for complex research tasks that require more than simple web lookups. Use it when you need to track recent news headlines over the past week, compile lists of visual assets for a design project, or aggregate video tutorials on niche programming topics. It is also highly effective for region-specific data gathering, such as searching for local market trends in 'us-en' versus 'uk-en'.
Example Prompts
- "Search for the latest research papers on generative AI released this past month and summarize the key findings."
- "Find high-quality images of mountain landscapes and save the results to a file named imagery.txt."
- "Look up the most recent video tutorials regarding Python's asyncio library from the last week and filter for long-form content."
Tips & Limitations
Always check if the built-in search tool is sufficient for simple, one-off queries to keep your workspace clean. Utilize the --max-results flag carefully; fetching excessive results may increase execution time. When performing sensitive research, remember to toggle --safe-search on to filter content accordingly. If you encounter connectivity errors, verify your virtual environment is active and the OpenClawCLI path is configured correctly in your system variables.
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Find the right skillPaste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.
{
"plugins": {
"official-anisafifi-web-search-hub": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: network-access, file-write, code-execution
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