Olostep is a comprehensive Web Data API that enables AI agents to scrape, crawl, and search the live internet for real-time information retrieval.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install olostep
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 olostep 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 Olostep Web Data API?
Olostep provides a high-performance bridge between AI models and the live web. It allows developers to integrate advanced scraping and searching capabilities into their Openclaw Skills, handling complex tasks like JavaScript rendering, anti-bot bypass, and geo-targeted data extraction. The tool is specifically designed for AI agents, offering content in LLM-friendly formats such as Markdown and providing structured JSON output via specialized parsers.
By leveraging Olostep, users can move beyond static training data and empower their agents with the ability to research current events, ingest technical documentation, and perform competitive analysis. Whether you need a single page scrape or an asynchronous crawl of an entire domain, Olostep provides the infrastructure to turn the web into a structured database for your agents.
Olostep Web Data API Use Cases
- Automating deep research by searching Google and scraping top-tier sources for synthesis.
- Ingesting entire documentation sites or technical blogs to provide up-to-date coding assistance.
- Performing large-scale competitor analysis by batch-scraping thousands of URLs in parallel.
- Debugging complex software errors by retrieving real-time solutions from GitHub issues and Stack Overflow.
How Olostep Web Data API Works
- The AI agent identifies a need for live data and triggers a request to the Olostep API.
- For simple tasks, the skill performs a synchronous scrape or search to get immediate results.
- For complex operations like crawling, the skill initiates an asynchronous job and polls for completion.
- Olostep processes the target URLs, handles rendering, and extracts the requested content formats.
- The skill retrieves the final data (often clean Markdown) and feeds it back into the agent's context window.
- The agent utilizes the fresh data to complete its task with high accuracy and citations.
Olostep Web Data API Setup
To integrate this into your Openclaw Skills, you must first obtain an API key from olostep.com. Once you have your key, configure your environment:
export OLOSTEP_API_KEY='your_api_key_here'
You can test the installation by performing a basic scrape:
curl -sS -X POST "https://api.olostep.com/v1/scrapes" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OLOSTEP_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url_to_scrape": "https://example.com",
"formats": ["markdown"]
}'
Olostep Web Data API Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes web data into specific fields based on the requested format, ensuring Openclaw Skills receive clean data.
| Data Type | JSON Path | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Markdown | result.markdown_content |
The primary format for AI processing, cleaned of clutter. |
| Structured JSON | result.json_content |
Parsed data from specific engines like Google Search. |
| HTML | result.html_content |
The raw source code of the scraped page. |
| AI Answers | result.answer |
Direct responses generated from web sources with citations. |
| Crawl Metadata | retrieve_id |
Unique identifiers used to fetch results from async batches. |
Olostep Web Data API Advanced Features
- Batch processing of up to 10,000 URLs in a single parallel operation for massive data ingestion.
- Site mapping functionality to discover and filter URL structures before starting a full crawl.
- Pre-built parsers for specific platforms like Google Search, Amazon, and social media contact extraction.
- AI-powered answer engine that searches the web and returns cited facts in a defined JSON schema.
- Customizable wait times for JavaScript-heavy single-page applications to ensure full content rendering.
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