Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
- Added _meta.json file to the skill package. - No code or functional changes were made.
What This Skill Does
Provides web search using DuckDuckGo's Instant Answer API with an HTML SERP scrape as fallback. Returns a structured result set: a short summary, up to 5 links with titles and snippets, and optional page summaries. No API key required.
Works out of the box without registering for or paying for a search API key, unlike Brave, Google, or Bing search integrations.
When to use it
- Looking up recent news on a topic without sharing queries with ad networks
- Finding top tutorials or docs for a library or framework
- Getting quick factual answers during a research session
- Running site-specific searches to locate relevant pages
- Summarizing top search results for a given question
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: Search the web for recent Python 3.13 release notes and give me the top links
- 1Invoke scripts/ddg_search.js with the query string
- 2Script calls DuckDuckGo Instant Answer JSON API
- 3If the instant answer returns limited data, script falls back to lightweight HTML SERP fetch
- 4Script parses results and returns structured JSON with summary and up to 5 links
- 5Agent presents the summary and link list to the user
JSON object with query, short abstract summary, and 5 titled links with snippets