Why is this fallback necessary for Claude Code?

Standard search APIs and HTML scraping often fail due to rate limits, anti-bot measures, or structural web changes; this skill provides a more resilient agent-based backup.

What happens when WebSearch returns 'Did 0 searches'?

The Web Search Fallback skill automatically detects this failure and triggers a general-purpose subagent to perform the research manually.

How does the autonomous agent approach differ from scraping?

Unlike scraping, which relies on specific HTML tags, the autonomous agent uses intelligent task delegation to find and interpret information across various sources.

Is this skill compatible with local processing?

Yes, as part of the LLM-Autonomous-Agent-Plugin suite, it is designed with a privacy-first, local-processing-ready architecture.

Web Search Fallback Agent

Name: Web Search Fallback Agent
Author: bejranonda

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Web Scraping & Data Collection

Ensures uninterrupted research capabilities by delegating web searches to autonomous agents when primary search APIs fail or hit limits.

About

The Web Search Fallback skill is a reliability layer for Claude Code designed to solve the common problem of failing web searches and rate-limited APIs. While traditional HTML scraping methods are increasingly blocked by bot protection and dynamic CSS changes, this skill uses a tested autonomous agent approach to gather information. By leveraging general-purpose subagents as a fallback, it bypasses the pitfalls of '0 search results' and CAPTCHAs, providing a robust mechanism for gathering real-time data and technical documentation even when standard tools are unavailable.

Key Features

Automatic recovery from WebSearch API rate limits
9 GitHub stars
Bypasses bot protection and JavaScript rendering hurdles
Eliminates reliance on brittle HTML scraping and CSS selectors
Autonomous agent-based research delegation
Comprehensive data synthesis from multiple internal sources

Use Cases

Extracting information from modern, protected websites that block traditional scrapers
Rescuing failed research tasks when WebSearch returns empty results
Maintaining productivity during search API outages or limit hits

About

Key Features

Automatic recovery from WebSearch API rate limits
9 GitHub stars
Bypasses bot protection and JavaScript rendering hurdles
Eliminates reliance on brittle HTML scraping and CSS selectors
Autonomous agent-based research delegation
Comprehensive data synthesis from multiple internal sources

Use Cases

Extracting information from modern, protected websites that block traditional scrapers
Rescuing failed research tasks when WebSearch returns empty results
Maintaining productivity during search API outages or limit hits