# search

A skill that runs Google queries through the Bright Data SERP API and hands your agent structured JSON with links, titles and descriptions.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code · 851 installs
- Author: davila7
- License: not stated · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/web-data/search
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/search

## What it does

The `search` skill gives Claude a way to query Google. A bash script, `scripts/search.sh`, calls the Bright Data SERP API and returns JSON with an `organic` array: link, title and a short page description. Your agent reads that JSON and keeps going — collecting sources, pulling facts, checking what actually ranks.

Two things have to exist before the first run: an API key from the Bright Data dashboard and an Unlocker zone created there. Both go into environment variables, `BRIGHTDATA_API_KEY` and `BRIGHTDATA_UNLOCKER_ZONE`. Without them the script does nothing, so check that first. Dependencies are `curl` for the request and `jq` for parsing; no `jq` on the machine means no parsed output.

You can also call it by hand: `bash scripts/search.sh "query" [cursor]`. The second argument is the page number, zero-indexed, default 0 — pass 1 for the second page.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **claude-code-templates**
```bash
npx claude-code-templates@latest --skill web-data/search
```

2. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill search -a claude-code
```

3. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/search/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/search/

### Codex

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/search/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/search/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install davila7/claude-code-templates search
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/search/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates --path cli-tool/components/skills/web-data/search
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/search/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates/tree/HEAD/cli-tool/components/skills/web-data/search

## When to use it
- pull top Google results as structured data
- feed an agent links and snippets to work through
- page through search results
- build a source list for a topic without copy-paste
- wire web search into an agent through an external API

## Example prompts
- run a search for "vector database benchmarks" and show me the links
- use the search skill and turn the results into a source list
- search for "rust async runtime" and grab the second page

## Similar
- [tavily-search](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tavily-search.md) — skill · 36100 installs
- [exa-search](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/k-dense-ai-exa-search.md) — skill · 1700 installs
- [searxng-search](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/searxng-search.md) — skill · 828 installs
- [local-place-search](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/local-place-search.md) — skill · 395 installs
- [Skywork Search](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/skywork-search.md) — skill · 347 installs

## Other versions with the same name
- [search · anthropics](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/anthropics-search.md) — 5000 installs
- [search · browserbase](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/browserbase-search.md) — 2800 installs
- [search · brightdata](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/brightdata-search.md) — 7500 installs
- [search · entireio](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/entireio-search.md) — 458 installs
- [search · mobbin](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/mobbin-search.md) — 342 installs

From the same set: [davila7/claude-code-templates](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/by/davila7/claude-code-templates.md) — 224 cards

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