Google search via Serper API with full page content extraction. Fast API lookup + concurrent page scraping (3s timeout). One well-crafted query returns rich results — avoid multiple calls. Two modes, explicit locale control. API key via .env.
Google search via Serper API. Fetches results AND reads the actual web pages to extract clean full-text content via trafilatura. Not just snippets — full article text.
Each invocation gives you 5 results (default mode) or up to 6 results (current mode), each with full page content. This is already a lot of information.
Craft ONE good search query. That is almost always enough.
Each call returns multiple results with full page text — you get broad coverage from a single query. Do not run multiple searches to "explore" a topic. One well-chosen query with the right mode covers it.
At most two calls if the user's request genuinely spans two distinct topics (e.g. "compare X vs Y" where X and Y need separate searches, or one + one call for different aspects). Never more than two.
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IMPORTANT: This skill already fetches and extracts full page content. Do NOT use web_fetch, WebFetch, or any other URL-fetching tool on the URLs returned by this skill. The content is already included in the output.
There are exactly two modes. Pick the right one based on the query:
default — General search (all-time)current — News and recent info| Query signals | Mode |
|---|---|
| "how does X work", "what is X", "explain X" | default |
| Product research, comparisons, tutorials | default |
| Technical documentation, guides | default |
| Historical topics, evergreen content | default |
| "news", "latest", "today", "this week", "recent" | current |
| "what happened", "breaking", "announced", "released" | current |
| Current events, politics, sports scores, stock prices | current |
Default is global — no country filter, English results. This ONLY works for English queries.
You MUST ALWAYS set --gl and --hl when ANY of these are true:
If the user writes in German, you MUST pass --gl de --hl de. No exceptions.
| Scenario | Flags |
|---|---|
| English query, no country target | (omit --gl and --hl) |
| German query OR user writes in German OR targeting DE/AT/CH | --gl de --hl de |
| French query OR user writes in French OR targeting France | --gl fr --hl fr |
| Any other non-English language/country | --gl XX --hl XX (ISO codes) |
Rule of thumb: If the query string contains non-English words, set --gl and --hl to match that language.
python3 scripts/search.py -q "QUERY" [--mode MODE] [--gl COUNTRY] [--hl LANG]
# English, general research
python3 scripts/search.py -q "how does HTTPS work"
# English, time-sensitive
python3 scripts/search.py -q "OpenAI latest announcements" --mode current
# German query — set locale + current mode for news/prices
python3 scripts/search.py -q "aktuelle Preise iPhone" --mode current --gl de --hl de
# German news
python3 scripts/search.py -q "Nachrichten aus Berlin" --mode current --gl de --hl de
# French product research
python3 scripts/search.py -q "meilleur smartphone 2026" --gl fr --hl fr
The output is a streamed JSON array — elements print one at a time as each page is scraped:
[{"query": "...", "mode": "default", "locale": {"gl": "world", "hl": "en"}, "results": [{"title": "...", "url": "...", "source": "web"}, ...]}
,{"title": "...", "url": "...", "source": "web", "content": "Full extracted page text..."}
,{"title": "...", "url": "...", "source": "news", "date": "2 hours ago", "content": "Full article text..."}
]
The first element is search metadata. Each following element contains a result with full extracted content.
Result fields:
title — page titleurl — source URLsource — "web", "news", or "knowledge_graph"content — full extracted page text (falls back to search snippet if extraction fails)date — present when available (news results always, web results sometimes)| Flag | Description |
|---|---|
-q, --query | Search query (required) |
-m, --mode | default (all-time, 5 results) or current (past week + news, 3 each) |
--gl | Country code (e.g. de, us, fr, at, ch) |
--hl | Language code (e.g. en, de, fr) |