Get your API key at: https://anycrawl.dev

### Method 2: OpenClaw gateway config

## Functions

### 1. anycrawl_scrape

Scrape a single URL and convert to LLM-ready structured data.

**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:**

### 2. anycrawl_search

Search Google and return structured results.

**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:**

### 3. anycrawl_crawl_start

Start crawling an entire website (async job).

**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:**

### 4. anycrawl_crawl_status

Check crawl job status.

**Parameters:**
- `job_id` (string, required): Crawl job ID

**Example:**

### 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:**

### 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:**

## 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 responses follow this structure:

// 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"
  }
})

// Basic search
anycrawl_search({ query: "OpenAI ChatGPT" })

// Multi-page search in Vietnamese
anycrawl_search({ 
  query: "hướng dẫn 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"]
  }
})