Setup & Installation
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
Version History
- Improved documentation with a new "Quick Start" section and example command usage. - Added example API response and error messages for easier troubleshooting. - Clarified pagination with details on number of results per page and usage of --start option. - Updated resource links for API reference and console. - Minor reformatting for clarity and consistency.
What This Skill Does
Runs real-time web searches via the Desearch API and returns structured SERP-style results with titles, URLs, and snippets. Supports pagination to retrieve additional result pages beyond the first ten.
Returns live web results with structured metadata, unlike static knowledge retrieval that can't reflect recent content.
When to use it
- Looking up current news on a topic
- Finding official documentation for a library
- Researching travel destinations
- Checking recent prices or product availability
- Gathering links for a research summary
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
User asks: find recent articles about large language model benchmarks
- 1Call desearch.py web with query "large language model benchmarks"
- 2Receive up to 10 results with titles, snippets, and links
- 3If more results needed, call again with --start 10 to fetch next page
- 4Parse returned JSON to extract relevant URLs and snippets
A list of current web results with titles, URLs, and brief descriptions covering recent LLM benchmark coverage
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.