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valyu-search

Use Valyu (valyu.ai) to search the web, extract content from web pages, answer with sources, and do deepresearch.

Why use this skill?

Integrate Valyu Search into OpenClaw to perform deep research, extract clean web content, and retrieve structured academic, financial, and patent data effortlessly.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/unicodeveloper/valyu-search
Or

What This Skill Does

The valyu-search skill is a powerful, multi-purpose tool designed to bridge the gap between OpenClaw and the vast, real-time expanse of the web and proprietary datasets. It goes far beyond a standard search engine by providing sophisticated data extraction, deep research capabilities, and the ability to pull structured data from specific URLs. Whether you need the latest financial market trends, deep-dive academic literature from repositories like arXiv or PubMed, or simple, clean markdown content extracted from a webpage, this skill serves as your primary gateway to information retrieval.

Installation

  1. Ensure you have Node.js installed on your system.
  2. Open your terminal in the OpenClaw environment.
  3. Run the installation command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/unicodeveloper/valyu-search.
  4. Obtain your personal API key from valyu.ai.
  5. Configure your environment by setting the VALYU_API_KEY in your ~/.openclaw/.env file to enable authenticated access.

Use Cases

  • Deep Research: Compile comprehensive reports on complex topics by aggregating data from academic papers, patents, and news outlets.
  • Content Extraction: Turn messy, ad-filled web pages into clean, structured Markdown or JSON data for further processing.
  • Market Analysis: Retrieve real-time stock data or SEC filings to track financial performance.
  • Fact-Checking: Verify claims with built-in citation generation to ensure your AI agent remains accurate and grounded.
  • Data Scraping: Extract structured data from websites using custom JSON schemas for automated workflows.

Example Prompts

  • "Search for the latest research on CRISPR-Cas9 developments in 2024 and summarize the findings with sources."
  • "Extract the text from this URL (https://example-article.com) and convert it into a concise summary."
  • "What is the current sentiment in financial news regarding lithium mining companies? Use the valyu-search tool to get up-to-date data."

Tips & Limitations

  • API Limits: Keep an eye on your usage within the Valyu dashboard to ensure you remain within your plan limits.
  • Specificity: When using the search command, utilize the searchType parameter to narrow down your results (e.g., using 'academic' vs 'news') for significantly better precision.
  • Structure: Always provide a clear jsonSchema when performing content extraction if you need the output in a machine-readable format.
Read Full Documentation on GitHub

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Author@unicodeveloper
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Updated2026-02-13
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Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-unicodeveloper-valyu-search": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags(AI)

#web-search#data-extraction#research-assistant#academic-search#scraping
Safety Score: 4/5

Flags: network-access, external-api