zero-api-key-web-search

Gemini-ready skill for source-backed web search, page reading, and evidence-aware claim checking. Use it to verify factual answers with live search results and explicit source handling.

Zero-API-Key Web Search

Use this skill when Gemini needs live information, citation-ready sources, or an explicit support/conflict read on a factual claim.

Install

Install the CLI tools first:

pip install zero-api-key-web-search

Core commands

zero-search "latest Python release" --type news --timelimit w
zero-browse "https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/"
zero-verify "Python 3.13 is the latest stable release" --deep --max-pages 2 --json
zero-report "Python 3.13 stable release" --claim "Python 3.13 is the latest stable release" --deep --json

When to use

  • current facts, releases, versions, and statistics
  • questions that need sources before answering
  • claims that may be supported, contested, or under-evidenced
  • cases where a compact evidence report is more useful than raw search results

Preferred workflow

  1. Start with zero-search for current or factual questions.
  2. Use zero-browse when snippets are too thin.
  3. Use zero-verify for support/conflict classification.
  4. Use zero-report when you want one citation-ready artifact.
  5. Prefer the free ddgs + self-hosted searxng path for stronger provider diversity.

Limits

  • zero-verify is heuristic and evidence-aware, not a proof engine.
  • The default provider path is ddgs.
  • Deep verification is stronger than snippets alone, but still not full-document reasoning.