Bohrium Web Search

Web search via Bohrium's open-platform proxy (backed by searchapi.io). Use when: user needs to search the open web for research papers, documentation, tutorials, news, or general information. NOT for: academic database search (use bohrium-paper-search / bohrium-scholar-search), Bohrium knowledge base search.

SKILL: Bohrium Web Search

Overview

Proxy to searchapi.io via open.bohrium.com's /v1/search/web endpoint. Issues keyword queries against the open internet and returns a list of hits with title, URL, and snippet.

Use when: locating a software's homepage, a blog post, a quick fact check, a news article.

Don't use for:

• Academic paper search → use bohrium-paper-search or bohrium-scholar-search
• Bohrium knowledge-base search → use bohrium-knowledge-base

No CLI support — HTTP API only. The bohr CLI ships a built-in BohrWebSearch tool that calls this endpoint automatically.

Auth configuration

ACCESS_KEY comes from the OpenClaw config file ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

"bohrium-web-search": {
  "enabled": true,
  "apiKey": "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
  "env": {
    "ACCESS_KEY": "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY"
  }
}

OpenClaw injects env.ACCESS_KEY into the runtime.

API

GET https://open.bohrium.com/openapi/v1/search/web?q=QUERY&num=N
Header: accessKey: $ACCESS_KEY

Param	Type	Default	Description
q	string	required	Search query
num	int	3	Number of results, range 1-10

Python example

import os, requests

AK = os.environ["ACCESS_KEY"]
BASE = "https://open.bohrium.com/openapi/v1/search/web"

r = requests.get(BASE,
    headers={"accessKey": AK},
    params={"q": "graphene synthesis CVD", "num": 5})
data = r.json()

for i, hit in enumerate(data.get("organic_results", []), 1):
    print(f"[{i}] {hit['title']}")
    print(f"    {hit['link']}")
    print(f"    {hit.get('snippet', '')[:200]}")
    print()

Response fields:

Field	Description
organic_results	Array of main results
organic_results[].title	Page title
organic_results[].link	Page URL
organic_results[].snippet	Excerpt
organic_results[].position	Result rank

curl example

AK="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY"
curl -s "https://open.bohrium.com/openapi/v1/search/web?q=deepmd-kit&num=5" \
  -H "accessKey: $AK" | jq '.organic_results[] | {title, link, snippet}'

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause	Fix
No organic_results	No matches for the query	Rephrase; English queries generally return more hits than Chinese
401	Bad ACCESS_KEY	Check accessKey header case; don't use Authorization: Bearer
num ignored	Out of range	Must be 1-10; values outside the range may be clamped or ignored

Pairs well with

• web-search to find a software's homepage → then bohrium-job to submit a job using it
• web-search to sanity-check a method name → then bohrium-paper-search to locate the original paper
• web-search for recent arxiv preprint URLs → hand off to bohrium-pdf-parser