OpenClaw Web Search Skills Configuration Guide

The Turing Platform provides two ready-to-use web search Skills on ClawHub, enabling OpenClaw to retrieve real-time information from the internet:

Skill	Slug	Use Case
Turing Tavily Web Search	`turing-tavily-web-search`	General web search, real-time news, English-first
Turing Baidu Web Search	`turing-baidu-web-search`	Chinese web search, Baidu index, domestic content

Prerequisites

Completed OpenClaw basic integration setup
ClawHub CLI installed: npm install -g clawhub@latest
Python 3 and the requests package: pip3 install requests

Step 1 — Install Skills from ClawHub

clawhub install installs skills into the ./skills directory within the current directory. To match the paths used throughout this guide, switch to your OpenClaw workspace directory before installing:

cd ~/.openclaw/workspace
clawhub install turing-tavily-web-search
clawhub install turing-baidu-web-search

After installation, both Skills will be located under ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/:

~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/
├── turing-tavily-web-search/
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   └── scripts.py
└── turing-baidu-web-search/
    ├── SKILL.md
    └── scripts.py

Step 2 — Configure Credentials

Open the configuration file ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json and add a skills block at the top level:

Web Console
Manual Edit

Run openclaw dashboard to open the console
Select Config > Authentication from the left menu, then click Raw
Append the following content to the configuration editor (replace the placeholder key values), then click Save → Update

  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "turing-skills": {
        "env": {
          "TURING_API_KEY": "sk-xxxx",
          "TURING_API_BASE": "https://live-turing.cn.llm.tcljd.com",
          "TURING_CLIENT": "tcl-aigc-portal",
          "TURING_ENVIRONMENT": "live"
        }
      }
    }
  }

Open the configuration file with an editor:

nano ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

Add the skills field at the top level of the JSON object (at the same level as models and agents):

{
  "models": { ... },
  "agents": { ... },
  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "turing-skills": {
        "env": {
          "TURING_API_KEY": "sk-xxxx",
          "TURING_API_BASE": "https://live-turing.cn.llm.tcljd.com",
          "TURING_CLIENT": "tcl-aigc-portal",
          "TURING_ENVIRONMENT": "live"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment Variable Reference

Variable	Required	Description
`TURING_API_KEY`	Yes	Turing Platform API key in the format `sk-...`, obtained from the Turing Portal
`TURING_CLIENT`	Yes	Client identifier; must be set to `tcl-aigc-portal`
`TURING_ENVIRONMENT`	Yes	Deployment environment; must be set to `live`
`TURING_API_BASE`	No	API base URL; defaults to `https://live-turing.cn.llm.tcljd.com`

About the entries key

The key under skills.entries (i.e., turing-skills) is a fixed name used internally by the Skills scripts when reading configuration. Do not change it.

Step 3 — Verify

After restarting OpenClaw, run the following commands to verify that the Skills are working correctly:

# Verify Tavily search
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/turing-tavily-web-search/scripts.py '{"query": "OpenAI latest news"}'

# Verify Baidu search
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/turing-baidu-web-search/scripts.py '{"q": "今日科技新闻"}'

A JSON response containing a results array indicates that the configuration is successful.

Usage Examples

Tavily Web Search Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`query`	`str` or `list[str]`	Yes	—	Search query; supports batch queries
`max_results`	`int`	No	`10`	Maximum number of results per query (1–20)
`max_tokens_per_page`	`int`	No	`1024`	Maximum number of tokens extracted per result
`search_domain_filter`	`list[str]`	No	—	Restrict results to specific domains (up to 20)

# Limit number of results
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/turing-tavily-web-search/scripts.py \
  '{"query": "Claude 4 release", "max_results": 5}'

# Filter by domain
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/turing-tavily-web-search/scripts.py \
  '{"query": "transformer architecture", "search_domain_filter": ["arxiv.org"]}'

Baidu Web Search Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
`q`	`str`	Yes	—	Search query
`count`	`int`	No	`10`	Number of results to return
`search_recency_filter`	`str`	No	—	Recency filter: `week` (7 days) / `month` (30 days) / `semiyear` (180 days) / `year` (365 days)

# Results from the past 7 days
python3 ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/turing-baidu-web-search/scripts.py \
  '{"q": "中证A50最新消息", "count": 10, "search_recency_filter": "week"}'

Troubleshooting

Error: `TURING_API_KEY must be set`

The key under skills.entries is not turing-skills, or the TURING_API_KEY value is empty. Check that skills.entries.turing-skills.env.TURING_API_KEY is correctly set in openclaw.json.

Error: `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'`

pip3 install requests

Error: `401 Unauthorized`

The API key is invalid or expired. Regenerate TURING_API_KEY from the Turing Portal.

Prerequisites​

Step 1 — Install Skills from ClawHub​

Step 2 — Configure Credentials​

Environment Variable Reference​

Step 3 — Verify​

Usage Examples​

Tavily Web Search Parameters​

Baidu Web Search Parameters​

Troubleshooting​

Error: TURING_API_KEY must be set​

Error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'​

Error: 401 Unauthorized​

Reference Resources​