laude-institute web-research
When to use
User asks to look something up, find current information, research a topic, or answer a question that requires up-to-date knowledge beyond what you have in context.
Common operations
Fetch a web page
curl -sL "https://example.com" | head -200
Search via DuckDuckGo (HTML)
query="your search terms"
curl -sL "https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=$(printf '%s' "$query" | jq -sRr @uri)" \
| grep -oP 'href="https?://[^"]*"' | head -10
Fetch and extract text from HTML
# Strip HTML tags for readable text
curl -sL "$url" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed '/^$/d' | head -100
Fetch JSON APIs
curl -s "https://api.example.com/endpoint" | jq '.results[]'
Download a file
curl -sLO "https://example.com/file.txt"
Tips
- Always use
-s(silent) and-L(follow redirects) with curl - Pipe HTML through
sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'for rough text extraction - Use
headortailto limit output — full web pages are huge - For JavaScript-heavy sites, raw curl won't render dynamic content
- Rate-limit requests — don't hammer endpoints in tight loops
- Check robots.txt before scraping extensively