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101-skills/superpowers

Web search and content extraction via Tavily and Exa APIs through inference.sh CLI.

What is web-search?

Provides AI-powered web search, direct answers, and content extraction using Tavily and Exa services. Use this skill to gather research information, power RAG pipelines, fact-check claims, or build research-capable agents.

  • Search the web with AI-generated answers and source attribution via Tavily or Exa
  • Extract clean text and images from multiple URLs at once
  • Get direct factual answers to specific questions
  • Integrate search results into LLM workflows for analysis and summarization
  • Build agents with web research capabilities

How to install web-search

npx skills add https://github.com/101-skills/superpowers --skill web-search
Prerequisites
  • inference.sh CLI (belt) installed and configured
  • Valid inference.sh account with `belt login`
  • API access to Tavily and/or Exa services
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How to use web-search

  1. 1.Install the belt CLI skill: `npx skills add belt-sh/cli`
  2. 2.Log in: `belt login`
  3. 3.Run a search: `belt app run tavily/search-assistant --input '{"query": "your query"}'`
  4. 4.Extract content from URLs: `belt app run tavily/extract --input '{"urls": ["url1", "url2"]}'`
  5. 5.Combine results with LLM apps for analysis or summarization

Use cases

Good for
  • Research information on any topic and synthesize findings with an LLM
  • Retrieve relevant documents for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
  • Verify claims and statements against current web sources
  • Aggregate content from multiple websites for analysis
  • Equip AI agents with real-time web search and fact-checking abilities
Who it's for
  • Developers building research or fact-checking agents
  • Teams implementing RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) systems
  • Researchers needing automated information gathering
  • AI engineers integrating web search into LLM applications

web-search FAQ

What's the difference between Tavily and Exa?

Tavily provides AI-powered search with answers and content extraction. Exa offers smart web search, direct factual answers, and content extraction. Both are available; choose based on your specific needs.

Can I use this for RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)?

Yes. Use the search or extract apps to retrieve relevant documents, then pipe results to an LLM app for analysis and synthesis.

Do I need API keys for Tavily and Exa?

Yes, you need valid API access to these services through your inference.sh account.

Can I extract content from multiple URLs at once?

Yes, Tavily Extract accepts an array of URLs and returns clean text and images from all of them.

How do I combine search with LLM analysis?

Run a search app to get results, save to a file, then pass the results to an LLM app like Claude for summarization or analysis.

Full instructions (SKILL.md)

Source of truth, from 101-skills/superpowers.


name: web-search description: "Web search and content extraction with Tavily and Exa via inference.sh CLI. Apps: Tavily Search, Tavily Extract, Exa Search, Exa Answer, Exa Extract. Capabilities: AI-powered search, content extraction, direct answers, research. Use for: research, RAG pipelines, fact-checking, content aggregation, agents. Triggers: web search, tavily, exa, search api, content extraction, research, internet search, ai search, search assistant, web scraping, rag, perplexity alternative" allowed-tools: Bash(belt *)

Install the belt CLI skill: npx skills add belt-sh/cli

Web Search & Extraction

Search the web and extract content via inference.sh CLI.

Web Search & Extraction

Quick Start

Requires inference.sh CLI (belt). Install instructions

belt login

# Search the web
belt app run tavily/search-assistant --input '{"query": "latest AI developments 2024"}'

Available Apps

Tavily

AppApp IDDescription
Search Assistanttavily/search-assistantAI-powered search with answers
Extracttavily/extractExtract content from URLs

Exa

AppApp IDDescription
Searchexa/searchSmart web search with AI
Answerexa/answerDirect factual answers
Extractexa/extractExtract and analyze web content

Examples

Tavily Search

belt app run tavily/search-assistant --input '{
  "query": "What are the best practices for building AI agents?"
}'

Returns AI-generated answers with sources and images.

Tavily Extract

belt app run tavily/extract --input '{
  "urls": ["https://example.com/article1", "https://example.com/article2"]
}'

Extracts clean text and images from multiple URLs.

Exa Search

belt app run exa/search --input '{
  "query": "machine learning frameworks comparison"
}'

Returns highly relevant links with context.

Exa Answer

belt app run exa/answer --input '{
  "question": "What is the population of Tokyo?"
}'

Returns direct factual answers.

Exa Extract

belt app run exa/extract --input '{
  "url": "https://example.com/research-paper"
}'

Extracts and analyzes web page content.

Workflow: Research + LLM

# 1. Search for information
belt app run tavily/search-assistant --input '{
  "query": "latest developments in quantum computing"
}' > search_results.json

# 2. Analyze with Claude
belt app run openrouter/claude-sonnet-45 --input '{
  "prompt": "Based on this research, summarize the key trends: <search-results>"
}'

Workflow: Extract + Summarize

# 1. Extract content from URL
belt app run tavily/extract --input '{
  "urls": ["https://example.com/long-article"]
}' > content.json

# 2. Summarize with LLM
belt app run openrouter/claude-haiku-45 --input '{
  "prompt": "Summarize this article in 3 bullet points: <content>"
}'

Use Cases

  • Research: Gather information on any topic
  • RAG: Retrieval-augmented generation
  • Fact-checking: Verify claims with sources
  • Content aggregation: Collect data from multiple sources
  • Agents: Build research-capable AI agents

Related Skills

# Full platform skill (all apps)
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@infsh-cli

# LLM models (combine with search for RAG)
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@llm-models

# Image generation
npx skills add inference-sh/skills@ai-image-generation

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