Search & Media Tools

MonoClaw bundles several third-party tools for web search and media generation. These are installed as core dependencies and work out of the box.

Exa

Exa is a neural search engine that finds relevant web pages using embeddings rather than keywords.

Setup

Get an API key from exa.ai and configure:

monoclaw config set EXA_API_KEY "your-key"

Usage

Search for recent papers on transformer architectures

Mona uses Exa to find the most semantically relevant results.

Features

• Neural search — Finds conceptually related content, not just keyword matches
• Content extraction — Returns clean article text, not just snippets
• Date filtering — Search within specific time ranges
• Domain filtering — Restrict to specific sites

Firecrawl

Firecrawl turns websites into clean, LLM-ready Markdown.

Setup

Get an API key from firecrawl.dev:

monoclaw config set FIRECRAWL_API_KEY "your-key"

Usage

Read https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/ and summarize the basics

Mona uses Firecrawl to extract clean content from web pages.

Features

• Markdown extraction — Converts HTML to clean Markdown
• Multi-page crawling — Follows links to scrape entire sites
• Schema extraction — Extracts structured data
• Rate limiting — Respects robots.txt and rate limits

Parallel Web

Parallel Web provides fast, parallel web scraping.

Setup

Get an API key from parallelweb.io:

monoclaw config set PARALLEL_WEB_API_KEY "your-key"

Usage

Compare pricing pages for AWS, GCP, and Azure

Mona fetches all three pages in parallel.

Features

• Parallel fetching — Multiple pages simultaneously
• JavaScript rendering — Executes JS for SPAs
• Geolocation — Fetch from different regions
• Screenshots — Capture page images

Fal Client

Fal provides fast image and video generation APIs.

Setup

Get an API key from fal.ai:

monoclaw config set FAL_KEY "your-key"

Usage

Generate an image of a Hong Kong skyline at sunset

Features

• Image generation — Stable Diffusion, FLUX, and more
• Video generation — Animate images, text-to-video
• Fast inference — Optimized GPU clusters
• Custom models — Upload and run your own checkpoints

Configuration

# ~/.monoclaw/config.yaml
tools:
  web_search:
    provider: exa        # exa | firecrawl | parallel_web
  browser:
    provider: firecrawl  # firecrawl | parallel_web
  image_generation:
    provider: fal        # fal | other

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