A high-performance web intelligence toolset that provides AI agents with real-time search, extraction, and crawling capabilities in LLM-friendly formats.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install nimble-web-tools
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install nimble-web-tools using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Nimble Web Tools?
Nimble Web Tools is a comprehensive suite designed to turn the live web into reliable, structured intelligence for AI agents. Unlike standard search tools, it offers stealth unblocking, JavaScript rendering, and specialized focus modes tailored for technical documentation, news, and academic research. As a premium addition to the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, it ensures agents receive clean, markdown-formatted data that minimizes context window usage while maximizing information accuracy.
Nimble Web Tools Use Cases
- Conducting deep technical research using the coding focus mode for API documentation and code examples.
- Extracting clean, LLM-friendly markdown from complex Single Page Applications (SPAs) that require JavaScript rendering.
- Mapping entire site structures to discover specific URLs before performing targeted data extraction.
- Monitoring real-time news or academic papers with specialized search parameters and time filters.
- Performing bulk web crawling for data pipelines or archival purposes using asynchronous task management.
How Nimble Web Tools Works
- The agent initiates a search using nimble search with specific parameters like focus mode and result limits to find relevant sources.
- Nimble's engine handles stealth unblocking and proxy management to retrieve real-time data from the live web without being blocked.
- For specific pages, the agent uses nimble extract with the --parse --format markdown flags to transform raw HTML into a structured version of the content.
- If a site structure is unknown, the agent employs nimble map to discover all available URLs and sitemaps for workflow planning.
- Data is returned in JSON or Markdown, allowing the AI to process the information efficiently within its context window.
Nimble Web Tools Setup
Install the Nimble CLI globally via npm:
npm i -g @nimble-way/nimble-cli
Set your API key as an environment variable to authenticate your Openclaw Skills requests:
export NIMBLE_API_KEY="your-api-key"
Verify the installation:
nimble --version
For Claude Code users, add the API key to your settings file at ~/.claude/settings.json:
{ "env": { "NIMBLE_API_KEY": "your-api-key" } }
Nimble Web Tools Data Schema & Taxonomy
Nimble organizes data into specialized structures optimized for different intelligence needs:
| Data Type | Description | Primary Format |
|---|---|---|
| Search Results | Includes title, snippet, source URL, and AI-synthesized answers. | JSON / YAML |
| Extracted Content | Cleaned page text stripped of boilerplate. | Markdown / HTML |
| Site Maps | A collection of discovered URLs with title and description metadata. | JSON |
| Crawl Tasks | Asynchronous job IDs linked to individual page extraction tasks. | JSON |
| Metadata | Information on geolocation, browser emulation, and response headers. | JSON |
Nimble Web Tools Advanced Features
- AI-powered synthesized answers with citations using the --include-answer flag for instant research insights.
- 8 specialized focus modes including coding, academic, shopping, social, and geo-targeted search.
- Advanced browser emulation (Chrome/Windows/Desktop) to bypass sophisticated bot detection.
- Real-time geolocation targeting allowing data extraction from specific countries, states, or cities.
- GJSON syntax support via the --transform flag for precise field filtering and data shaping directly in the CLI.
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