desearch-crawl
SKILL.md
Crawl Webpage By Desearch
Extract content from any webpage URL. Returns clean text or raw HTML.
Quick Start
- Get an API key from https://console.desearch.ai
- Set environment variable:
export DESEARCH_API_KEY='your-key-here'
Usage
# Crawl a webpage (returns clean text by default)
scripts/desearch.py crawl "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence"
# Get raw HTML
scripts/desearch.py crawl "https://example.com" --crawl-format html
Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
--crawl-format |
Output content format: text (default) or html |
Examples
Read a documentation page
scripts/desearch.py crawl "https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html"
Get raw HTML for analysis
scripts/desearch.py crawl "https://example.com/page" --crawl-format html
Response
Example (format=text, truncated, default)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making...
Example (format=html, truncated)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><title>Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia</title></head>
<body>
<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems...</p>
</body>
</html>
Notes
- Response is plain text or raw HTML — not JSON.
- Default format is
text. Use--crawl-format htmlonly when you need to inspect page structure. - Prefer
textformat to avoid bloating the agent context with markup.
Errors
Status 401, Unauthorized (e.g., missing/invalid API key)
{
"detail": "Invalid or missing API key"
}
Status 402, Payment Required (e.g., balance depleted)
{
"detail": "Insufficient balance, please add funds to your account to continue using the service."
}
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