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Anycrawl

by @quincygunter

Provides web scraping, crawling, and Google search with multi-engine support via the SkillBoss API for structured data extraction and automation.

Versionv1.0.0
Downloads433
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TERMINAL
clawhub install qui-anycrawl

πŸ“– About This Skill

AnyCrawl Skill

Web scraping, crawling, and search via SkillBoss API Hub β€” powered by high-performance multi-threaded crawling backends (Firecrawl, Jina AI, Apify, ScrapingDog, and more).

Setup

Method 1: Environment variable (Recommended)

export SKILLBOSS_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Make it permanent by adding to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc: 

echo 'export SKILLBOSS_API_KEY="your-api-key"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Get your API key at: https://heybossai.com

Method 2: OpenClaw gateway config

openclaw config.patch --set SKILLBOSS_API_KEY="your-api-key"

requires.env

SKILLBOSS_API_KEY

Functions

1. anycrawl_scrape

Scrape a single URL and convert to LLM-ready structured data via SkillBoss API Hub (type: "scraping").

Parameters:

  • url (string, required): URL to scrape
  • engine (string, optional): Scraping engine - "cheerio" (default), "playwright", "puppeteer"
  • formats (array, optional): Output formats - ["markdown"], ["html"], ["text"], ["json"], ["screenshot"]
  • timeout (number, optional): Timeout in milliseconds (default: 30000)
  • wait_for (number, optional): Delay before extraction in ms (browser engines only)
  • wait_for_selector (string/object/array, optional): Wait for CSS selectors
  • include_tags (array, optional): Include only these HTML tags (e.g., ["h1", "p", "article"])
  • exclude_tags (array, optional): Exclude these HTML tags
  • proxy (string, optional): Proxy URL (e.g., "http://proxy:port")
  • json_options (object, optional): JSON extraction with schema/prompt
  • extract_source (string, optional): "markdown" (default) or "html"

    • Examples:

    // Basic scrape with default cheerio
anycrawl_scrape({ url: "https://example.com" })
    // Scrape SPA with Playwright
anycrawl_scrape({
  url: "https://spa-example.com",
  engine: "playwright",
  formats: ["markdown", "screenshot"]
})
    // Extract structured JSON
anycrawl_scrape({
  url: "https://product-page.com",
  engine: "cheerio",
  json_options: {
    schema: {
      type: "object",
      properties: {
        product_name: { type: "string" },
        price: { type: "number" },
        description: { type: "string" }
      },
      required: ["product_name", "price"]
    },
    user_prompt: "Extract product details from this page"
  }
})

    2. anycrawl_search

    Search Google and return structured results via SkillBoss API Hub (type: "search").

    Parameters:

  • query (string, required): Search query
  • engine (string, optional): Search engine - "google" (default)
  • limit (number, optional): Max results per page (default: 10)
  • offset (number, optional): Number of results to skip (default: 0)
  • pages (number, optional): Number of pages to retrieve (default: 1, max: 20)
  • lang (string, optional): Language locale (e.g., "en", "zh", "vi")
  • safe_search (number, optional): 0 (off), 1 (medium), 2 (high)
  • scrape_options (object, optional): Scrape each result URL with these options

    • Examples:

    // Basic search
anycrawl_search({ query: "OpenAI ChatGPT" })
    // Multi-page search in Vietnamese
anycrawl_search({
  query: "hΖ°α»›ng dαΊ«n Node.js",
  pages: 3,
  lang: "vi"
})
    // Search and auto-scrape results
anycrawl_search({
  query: "best AI tools 2026",
  limit: 5,
  scrape_options: {
    engine: "cheerio",
    formats: ["markdown"]
  }
})

    3. anycrawl_crawl_start

    Start crawling an entire website (async job) via SkillBoss API Hub (type: "scraping" with crawl mode).

    Parameters:

  • url (string, required): Seed URL to start crawling
  • engine (string, optional): "cheerio" (default), "playwright", "puppeteer"
  • strategy (string, optional): "all", "same-domain" (default), "same-hostname", "same-origin"
  • max_depth (number, optional): Max depth from seed URL (default: 10)
  • limit (number, optional): Max pages to crawl (default: 100)
  • include_paths (array, optional): Path patterns to include (e.g., ["/blog/*"])
  • exclude_paths (array, optional): Path patterns to exclude (e.g., ["/admin/*"])
  • scrape_paths (array, optional): Only scrape URLs matching these patterns
  • scrape_options (object, optional): Per-page scrape options

    • Examples:

    // Crawl entire website
anycrawl_crawl_start({
  url: "https://docs.example.com",
  engine: "cheerio",
  max_depth: 5,
  limit: 50
})
    // Crawl only blog posts
anycrawl_crawl_start({
  url: "https://example.com",
  strategy: "same-domain",
  include_paths: ["/blog/*"],
  exclude_paths: ["/blog/tags/*"],
  scrape_options: {
    formats: ["markdown"]
  }
})
    // Crawl product pages only
anycrawl_crawl_start({
  url: "https://shop.example.com",
  strategy: "same-domain",
  scrape_paths: ["/products/*"],
  limit: 200
})

    4. anycrawl_crawl_status

    Check crawl job status.

    Parameters:

  • job_id (string, required): Crawl job ID

    • Example: 

    anycrawl_crawl_status({ job_id: "7a2e165d-8f81-4be6-9ef7-23222330a396" })

    5. anycrawl_crawl_results

    Get crawl results (paginated).

    Parameters:

  • job_id (string, required): Crawl job ID
  • skip (number, optional): Number of results to skip (default: 0)

    • Example: 

    // Get first 100 results
anycrawl_crawl_results({ job_id: "xxx", skip: 0 })
    // Get next 100 results
anycrawl_crawl_results({ job_id: "xxx", skip: 100 })

    6. anycrawl_crawl_cancel

    Cancel a running crawl job.

    Parameters:

  • job_id (string, required): Crawl job ID

    • 7. anycrawl_search_and_scrape

    Quick helper: Search Google then scrape top results.

    Parameters:

  • query (string, required): Search query
  • max_results (number, optional): Max results to scrape (default: 3)
  • scrape_engine (string, optional): Engine for scraping (default: "cheerio")
  • formats (array, optional): Output formats (default: ["markdown"])
  • lang (string, optional): Search language

    • Example: 

    anycrawl_search_and_scrape({
  query: "latest AI news",
  max_results: 5,
  formats: ["markdown"]
})

    Engine Selection Guide

    | Engine | Best For | Speed | JS Rendering | |--------|----------|-------|--------------| | cheerio | Static HTML, news, blogs | Fastest | No | | playwright | SPAs, complex web apps | Slower | Yes | | puppeteer | Chrome-specific, metrics | Slower | Yes |

    Response Format

    All scraping responses follow this structure (result path: data.result):

    {
  "data": {
    "result": { ... }
  }
}

    All search responses follow this structure (result path: data.result):

    {
  "data": {
    "result": [ ... ]
  }
}

    Error response: 

    {
  "success": false,
  "error": "Error type",
  "message": "Human-readable message"
}

    Common Error Codes

  • 400 - Bad Request (validation errors)
  • 401 - Unauthorized (invalid API key)
  • 402 - Payment Required (insufficient credits)
  • 404 - Not Found
  • 429 - Rate limit exceeded
  • 500 - Internal server error

    • API Limits

  • Rate limits apply based on your plan
  • Crawl jobs expire after 24 hours
  • Max crawl limit: depends on credits

    • Links

  • API Docs: https://heybossai.com/docs
  • Website: https://heybossai.com

    • βš™οΈ Configuration

    Method 1: Environment variable (Recommended)

    export SKILLBOSS_API_KEY="your-api-key"

    Make it permanent by adding to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc: 

    echo 'export SKILLBOSS_API_KEY="your-api-key"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

    Get your API key at: https://heybossai.com

    Method 2: OpenClaw gateway config

    openclaw config.patch --set SKILLBOSS_API_KEY="your-api-key"