A high-performance CLI skill enabling AI agents to perform real-time web searches, deep research with citations, and precise content extraction via the You.com API.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install youdotcom
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 youdotcom 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 You.com Web Search & Research CLI?
The youdotcom-cli is a specialized integration designed for Openclaw Skills that empowers bash-based agents to access the vast knowledge of the live web. By leveraging standard system utilities like curl and jq, this skill provides a lightweight yet powerful interface to You.com's advanced search and research endpoints. It allows agents to go beyond their training data by fetching real-time information, crawling specific URLs, and generating synthesized answers with verifiable citations.
This skill is particularly valuable for developers building autonomous agents that require high-fidelity data extraction and fact-checking capabilities. It supports multiple modes of operation, from free-tier basic searches to exhaustive research tasks that synthesize information from multiple sources into clean, LLM-ready Markdown content.
You.com Web Search & Research CLI Use Cases
- Performing real-time web searches to answer time-critical questions.
- Conducting deep-dive research on technical topics with automated citation generation.
- Scraping specific web pages and converting them to Markdown for context injection.
- Verifying facts and claims against live web data using authoritative sources.
- Automating competitive analysis or news monitoring workflows within a CLI environment.
How You.com Web Search & Research CLI Works
- The agent detects a trigger or requirement for web-based information or specific URL data.
- It determines the appropriate tool based on the request: Search for general queries, Research for synthesized answers, or Contents for direct URL crawling.
- The skill verifies the availability of the YDC_API_KEY environment variable to enable advanced research features.
- A curl request is dispatched to the You.com REST API, utilizing the appropriate endpoint (api.you.com or ydc-index.io).
- The raw JSON response is processed through jq to filter and extract only the necessary data fields.
- The extracted content is wrapped in security delimiters and passed back to the agent reasoning engine for processing.
You.com Web Search & Research CLI Setup
Ensure that your environment has the necessary dependencies installed:
# Verify curl and jq are available
curl --version
jq --version
While basic search functionality is available on a free tier, it is recommended to export your API key to access the full suite of Openclaw Skills features:
export YDC_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
You.com Web Search & Research CLI Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes data into structured formats optimized for LLM consumption:
| Feature | Source Endpoint | Data Output |
|---|---|---|
| Web Search | /v1/agents/search |
JSON array of web results with titles, URLs, and descriptions. |
| AI Research | /v1/research |
Synthesized Markdown content with a corresponding list of source citations. |
| URL Contents | /v1/contents |
Full-page extraction converted directly into Markdown strings. |
All external data is encapsulated within <external-content> tags to maintain a clear boundary between agent logic and untrusted web data.
You.com Web Search & Research CLI Advanced Features
- Support for multiple research effort levels including lite, standard, deep, and exhaustive.
- Livecrawl integration to fetch full page content directly during search operations.
- Freshness and country-based filtering to narrow down search results to specific regions or timeframes.
- Multi-URL content extraction in a single request for efficient data gathering.
- Citation extraction to provide transparent and verifiable sourcing for all generated answers.
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