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Web Research by lazuardytech — Agent Skill

Name: Web Research
Author: lazuardytech

Web Research

Web research automation — search the web, scrape readable page content, and summarize text. Use when the user needs to search the web, look something up online, find information on the internet, scrape a web page, extract article text from a URL, read a webpage's content, or summarize long text or an article. Triggers include "search the web", "cari di internet", "look this up", "google this", "scrape this page", "scrape URL", "extract text from", "read this article", "get content from this link", "summarize this", "ringkas", "summarize this article", "research this topic", "find info about", or any task requiring web search, page scraping, or text summarization. No API key required — uses only the Python standard library.

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web-research

Web search, page scraping, and text summarization using only the Python standard library. No API keys, no third-party packages.

Run CLIs from this skill's directory (the folder that contains this SKILL.md): uv run scripts/<name>.py or python3 scripts/<name>.py. Do not prefix skills/web-research/ — that path is only valid from this monorepo's root.

Available Scripts

Search the web

uv run scripts/search.py --query "climate policy 2024" --limit 10

Searches via the DuckDuckGo HTML endpoint. Outputs JSON: {"query": ..., "count": N, "results": [{"title", "url", "snippet"}]}. Exit 2 if no results.

Scrape a page

uv run scripts/scrape.py --url "https://example.com/article" --max-chars 5000

Fetches and extracts the readable title, meta description, and text. Outputs JSON: {"url", "title", "description", "text"}. Exit 2 if no text extracted.

Summarize text

uv run scripts/scrape.py --url "https://example.com" | \
  uv run scripts/summarize.py --sentences 5

Reads plain text OR JSON with a text field (e.g. scrape.py output) on stdin. Produces an extractive, frequency-ranked summary. Outputs JSON: {"sentences": N, "summary": [...]}. Works offline once text is on stdin.

Pipeline

Chain the scripts: search.py → pick a URL → scrape.py → summarize.py.

Output & Exit Codes

All scripts emit JSON to stdout; diagnostics to stderr.
Exit 0 success, 1 error, 2 not found.

Notes

Search uses DuckDuckGo's HTML endpoint; heavy use may be rate-limited.
Summarization is extractive (no LLM), so it needs no API key and runs offline.

---name: web-researchdescription: Web research automation — search the web, scrape readable page content, and summarize text. Use when the user needs to search the web, look something up online, find information on the internet, scrape a web page, extract article text from a URL, read a webpage's content, or summarize long text or an article. Triggers include "search the web", "cari di internet", "look this up", "google this", "scrape this page", "scrape URL", "extract text from", "read this article", "get content from this link", "summarize this", "ringkas", "summarize this article", "research this topic", "find info about", or any task requiring web search, page scraping, or text summarization. No API key required — uses only the Python standard library.license: MIT---# web-researchWeb search, page scraping, and text summarization using only the Pythonstandard library. No API keys, no third-party packages.Run CLIs from this skill's directory (the folder that contains this `SKILL.md`):`uv run scripts/<name>.py` or `python3 scripts/<name>.py`. Do not prefix`skills/web-research/` — that path is only valid from this monorepo's root.## Available Scripts### Search the web```bashuv run scripts/search.py --query "climate policy 2024" --limit 10```Searches via the DuckDuckGo HTML endpoint. Outputs JSON:`{"query": ..., "count": N, "results": [{"title", "url", "snippet"}]}`.Exit `2` if no results.### Scrape a page```bashuv run scripts/scrape.py --url "https://example.com/article" --max-chars 5000```Fetches and extracts the readable title, meta description, and text. OutputsJSON: `{"url", "title", "description", "text"}`. Exit `2` if no text extracted.### Summarize text```bashuv run scripts/scrape.py --url "https://example.com" | \ uv run scripts/summarize.py --sentences 5```Reads plain text OR JSON with a `text` field (e.g. `scrape.py` output) onstdin. Produces an extractive, frequency-ranked summary. Outputs JSON:`{"sentences": N, "summary": [...]}`. Works offline once text is on stdin.## PipelineChain the scripts: `search.py` → pick a URL → `scrape.py` → `summarize.py`.## Output & Exit Codes- All scripts emit JSON to stdout; diagnostics to stderr.- Exit `0` success, `1` error, `2` not found.## Notes- Search uses DuckDuckGo's HTML endpoint; heavy use may be rate-limited.- Summarization is extractive (no LLM), so it needs no API key and runs offline.

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