Octen Search - Real-time Web Search for AI Agents#

Octen Search gives your OpenClaw agent the ability to search the web in real time. Powered by Octen, a search infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents and LLMs.

What This Skill Does#

• 🔍 Web search: Search the live web and get structured, LLM-ready results
• ⚡ Fast: Average response time under 80ms
• 🕐 Fresh: Minute-level index freshness — always up-to-date
• 📅 Time filtering: Filter results by publish date (start/end time)
• 🤖 LLM-native: Results formatted and ranked specifically for AI consumption

Usage#

bash

# Basic web search
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/search.py "your search query"

# Control number of results (1-20, default: 5)
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/search.py "your query" -n 10

# Filter by start date
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/search.py "your query" --start_time "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z"

# Filter by date range
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/search.py "your query" --start_time "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z" --end_time "2026-01-31T23:59:59Z"

Options#

• -n, --count <count>: Optional. Number of results (min: 1, max: 20, if not provided, default to 5)
• --start_time <time>: Optional. Start time for filtering results (ISO 8601 format, e.g., "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z")
• --end_time <time>: Optional. End time for filtering results (ISO 8601 format, e.g., "2026-01-31T23:59:59Z"). If start_time and end_time are both provided, end_time must be greater than start_time

Notes#

• Needs OCTEN_API_KEY in the environment variables, get it from https://octen.ai, then set it like this: export OCTEN_API_KEY=your-api-key
• Use --start_time and --end_time if you want to filter results by time published. For example, to search for news published in January 2026, you can use --start_time "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z" --end_time "2026-01-31T23:59:59Z".

Security#

• The OCTEN_API_KEY environment variable is only sent to the official Octen API endpoint: https://api.octen.ai/search
• No environment variables are sent to any other endpoints or external services
• The API endpoint is hardcoded and whitelisted in the code and cannot be modified at runtime
• The skill uses standard HTTP header authentication ( X-Api-Key) which is the recommended practice for API authentication
• All network requests are made over HTTPS to ensure encrypted transmission of the API key