# nicobailon/pi-web-access

Web search and content extraction extension for Pi coding agent

Repository: https://github.com/nicobailon/pi-web-access
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pi-web-access
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: perplexity, pi-coding-agent, typescript, web-search
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:09:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 17
- inputs: {"age_days": 239, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 38}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1229, forks 212 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:03.407879+00:00)

## What it is
A TypeScript extension for the Pi coding agent that adds web search, URL content extraction, GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction, and YouTube/local video understanding. It supports many search providers (Exa, OpenAI/Codex, Brave, Tavily, Firecrawl, SearXNG, and more) with automatic fallback chains and zero-config keyless search.

## Use cases
- give my coding agent web search
- extract content from web pages for an AI agent
- search the web without API keys
- ask questions about a YouTube video's content
- clone a GitHub repo for an agent to explore
- extract text from PDFs for LLM context
- self-hosted private web search via SearXNG

## When to choose
- you use the Pi coding agent and need web access
- you want keyless zero-config search out of the box
- you need fallback chains across many search providers
- you want video understanding with transcripts and frame extraction

## When to avoid
- you use a different coding agent than Pi
- you need a standalone search API rather than an agent extension
- you need a GUI search tool

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, search-engine, rag, pdf, video-processing
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: pi-coding-agent, web-search, content-extraction, youtube-transcripts, searxng, tavily, firecrawl, perplexity, zero-config, fallback-chains, ai-agents, search, nodejs, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- nicobailon/pi-web-access (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:03.407879+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:15:07.686221+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nicobailon/pi-web-access (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:03.407879+00:00, sha 320db066d19a)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/pi-web-access (fetched 2026-08-29T12:22:34.132866+00:00, sha c2dd229742b7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.