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@tian.zuo/pi-web-search

v0.1.0

Published

Web search (OpenAI Responses with simple prompt, Exa, Firecrawl, Ollama) and web fetch for the pi coding agent.

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Links

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Maintainers

tian.zuotian.zuo

Keywords

pipi-packagepi-extensionpi-coding-agentweb-searchweb-fetchsearchopenaiexafirecrawlollama

Readme

@tian.zuo/pi-web-search

Clean, lightweight web search and fetch tools for the pi coding agent.

Supports OpenAI Responses (with simple, concise system instructions and automatic pi/Codex OAuth reuse), Exa, Firecrawl, and Ollama (local/cloud), plus built-in direct HTML-to-Markdown fetch fallback.

Features

  • web_search Tool: Queries live web sources and returns concise summaries with cited source links.
    • OpenAI Responses (/v1/responses or Codex): Uses OpenAI's server-side web search with a simple, clean prompt. Reuses your active pi login (openai-codex or openai), or uses OPENAI_API_KEY.
    • Exa: High quality search results via EXA_API_KEY.
    • Firecrawl: Clean search output via FIRECRAWL_API_KEY.
    • Ollama: Local (http://localhost:11434) or cloud web search.
  • web_fetch Tool: Reads web pages and documentation as clean Markdown.
    • Native scrapers for Firecrawl (/v1/scrape), Exa (/contents), and Ollama (/api/web_fetch).
    • Direct Fetch Fallback: High-performance HTML-to-Markdown extraction when no scraping key is provided.
  • Session Fallback Chains: Every call walks an ordered fallback chain — search: openai → exa → firecrawl → ollama; fetch: firecrawl → exa → ollama → direct. When a provider runs out of usage (402/403, out of credits, usage limits) it is skipped for the rest of the session, so the next search/fetch goes straight to the next healthy provider. Plain rate limits (429) only apply a short cooldown. Successful responses report which providers they fell back from.

Installation

pi install npm:@tian.zuo/pi-web-search

Or try in a live session without installing:

pi -e ./packages/pi-web-search

Configuration

Precedence: Environment Variables > ~/.config/@tian.zuo/pi-web-search/config.json > ~/.pi/agent/auth.json (Codex / OpenAI login).

Environment Variables

| Variable | Description | Default | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | OPENAI_API_KEY | OpenAI API key or Codex JWT | Reused from Pi login if available | | OPENAI_BASE_URL | Custom OpenAI Responses endpoint | https://api.openai.com/v1/responses | | OPENAI_SEARCH_MODEL | Model for OpenAI Responses search | gpt-5.6-luna | | EXA_API_KEY | Exa API key | - | | FIRECRAWL_API_KEY | Firecrawl API key | - | | FIRECRAWL_BASE_URL | Custom Firecrawl API URL | https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1 | | OLLAMA_HOST | Ollama host URL | http://localhost:11434 | | OLLAMA_API_KEY | Ollama API key (for cloud endpoints) | - |

License

MIT