#🔍 web-search-plus-plugin — Multi-Provider Web Search as a Native Tool

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gusty hawk
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I love openclaw but the web search is a little basic for my needs. More provider options, Fallback and auto routing makes sense to me. I got the same as a skill but with that still default search gets used 90% of the time because it's not natively integrated.

So I made a Standalone OpenClaw plugin that registers web_search_plus as a first-class tool with intelligent auto-routing across 6 search providers.

Auto-routes queries to the best provider based on intent:
→ "iPhone 16 price" → Serper (shopping)
→ "how does TCP/IP work" → Tavily (research)
→ "companies like Stripe" → Exa (semantic discovery)
→ "what is quantum computing" → Perplexity (AI answer)

6 providers supported:
• Serper (Google) — facts, news, shopping
• Tavily — deep research & analysis
• Exa — neural/semantic search
• Perplexity — AI-synthesized answers with citations
• You.com — real-time RAG
• SearXNG — self-hosted, privacy-first, $0

Features:
• Intelligent auto-routing based on query intent
• Local result caching (saves API costs)
• Graceful fallbacks if a provider is down
• Interactive setup wizard
• Works with just 1 provider — use one or all six

Install:
npm install web-search-plus-plugin

Copy .env.template to .env, add your API keys, and add to your OpenClaw config. Requires Python 3.

Maintainer: robbyczgw-cla

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-search-plus-plugin
GitHub: https://github.com/robbyczgw-cla/web-search-plus-plugin

tribal wind
gusty hawk
queen quail
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Hi Robby, do you try another search tools to use in local without apikeys ? like firecrawl ?

gusty hawk
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firecrawl selfhosted is more a web fetch then web search, but could be interesting to use in a complete local setup together with searxng

lofty cairn
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WARNING: Plugin "web-search-plus-plugin" contains dangerous code patterns: Environment variable access combined with network send — possible credential harvesting (/tmp/openclaw-plugin-JxTjeY/extract/package/index.ts:11)
Plugin "web-search-plus-plugin" installation blocked: dangerous code patterns detected: Environment variable access combined with network send — possible credential harvesting (/tmp/openclaw-plugin-JxTjeY/extract/package/index.ts:11)