原始内容
name: search1api
description: >
Live web search, page retrieval, news, sitemap discovery, and trending topics through Search1API. Use this skill whenever the user wants to search the web, look something up, research a topic, read or summarize a URL, check current news, explore a site's links, see trending topics, or check API balance. Trigger on phrases like "search for", "look up", "find out about", "what's happening with", "any news on", "what does this link say", "read this page", "summarize this URL", "trending on GitHub", or when the user shares a bare URL. Prefer the bundled Search1API MCP tools when available and fall back to the search1api CLI (s1).
metadata: {"openclaw": {"requires": {"bins": ["s1"]}}}
Search1API
Live web research through the bundled Search1API MCP server or the s1
command-line tool.
Choose the available transport
- Prefer the connected Search1API MCP tools. They may be namespaced by the
host, but their final tool names are
search,fetch,news,crawl,sitemap, andtrending. - If the MCP tools are unavailable, check whether
s1is installed and use the matching CLI command. - If neither transport is available, ask the user to connect the bundled MCP server or install the CLI:
curl -fsSL https://cli.search1api.com/install.sh | bash
Or via npm:
npm install -g search1api-cli
Do not install software or switch transports when a working Search1API tool is
already available. To update an existing CLI install, the user can run
s1 update. Only suggest this when a command fails in a version-related way.
The remote MCP server handles authentication through the host's connection flow. If the host reports that authentication is required, ask the user to connect or re-authenticate Search1API.
For CLI authentication, prefer browser login:
s1 login
Manual fallback:
s1 config set-key <your-api-key>
You can also set the environment variable SEARCH1API_KEY.
If a CLI command fails with "command not found" or an auth error, remind the
user to install s1 and run s1 login before retrying.
When to use
| User intent | MCP tool | CLI fallback |
|---|---|---|
| Shares a URL / link → read and summarize | crawl |
s1 crawl <url> |
| Wants to search the web | search |
s1 search "<query>" |
| Wants the full page behind a search result | fetch with its result id |
s1 crawl <url> |
| Wants news | news |
s1 news "<query>" |
| Wants to explore a site's links | sitemap |
s1 sitemap <url> |
| Wants trending topics | trending |
s1 trending <service> |
| Wants to check remaining credits | Not exposed | s1 balance |
Dynamic tuning
Adapt parameters to user intent — don't just use defaults:
- Quick lookup ("search for X", "what is X") →
-n 5, no crawl - Deep research ("research X thoroughly", "comprehensive analysis") →
-n 15, then crawl top 3–5 results with separates1 crawlcalls - User specifies a number ("find 10 articles") → match it with
-n - Recency signals ("latest", "recent", "this week") →
-t dayor-t month - Domain-specific ("search on Reddit", "find GitHub repos") →
-s reddit,-s github, etc. - Site-scoped ("only from arxiv.org") →
--include arxiv.org - Chinese queries → use
google,bing,wechat, orbilibiliaccording to intent
For MCP calls, map the CLI flags above to their schema equivalents:
max_results, search_service, crawl_results, include_sites,
exclude_sites, and time_range.
Commands
search
s1 search "<query>" [options]
| Option | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
-n, --max-results <N> |
Number of results (1–50) | 10 |
-s, --service <engine> |
Search engine | |
-c, --crawl <N> |
Crawl N results for full content | 0 |
--include <sites...> |
Only include these sites | |
--exclude <sites...> |
Exclude these sites | |
-t, --time <range> |
day, month, year | |
--json |
Raw JSON output |
Search engines: google, bing, duckduckgo, yahoo, x, reddit, github, youtube, arxiv, wechat, bilibili, imdb, wikipedia
news
s1 news "<query>" [options]
Same options as search. News services: google, bing, duckduckgo, yahoo, hackernews. Default service: bing.
When user asks for breaking/latest news, always add -t day.
crawl
s1 crawl <url>
Extracts clean content from a URL. Use this whenever the user shares a link.
sitemap
s1 sitemap <url>
Returns all discovered links on a URL/domain.
trending
s1 trending <service> [-n <N>]
Services: github, hackernews.
balance
s1 balance
Shows remaining API credits.
Workflows
Deep research
- Use
search(ors1 search "<topic>" -n 15) to get broad results - Use
fetchwith result IDs (ors1 crawl <url>) for the top 3–5 relevant pages - Synthesize all gathered content into a coherent answer with source citations
URL summarization
s1 crawl <url>→ get the page content- Summarize or answer questions based on the content
Trending deep dive
s1 trending github -n 10→ discover hot topicss1 search "<interesting topic>" -t day→ search for detailss1 crawl <url>→ read full article if needed
Output handling
- CLI commands produce human-readable output by default; add
--jsonfor programmatic processing. - After retrieving results, summarize and synthesize the information instead of dumping raw output.
- Preserve source URLs and cite the relevant pages in the final answer.
- Distinguish facts found in sources from your own inference.
References
- Usage examples — read for additional patterns