Agent Skills

Configure AI tools and coding assistants with official Oxylabs Web Scraper API Agent Skills for web scraping and video data collection.

Oxylabs Agent Skills (skills.md) teach LLMs and AI coding assistants how to configure and interact with Oxylabs products.

Web Scraper API credentials support two different agent skills depending on your target workflow:

• web-scraper-api – structured data collection and parsing from various websites and public data sources.
• video-data – extracting video metadata, search results, subtitles, or handling raw media downloads.

Installation

Claude Code (plugin marketplace)

Inside Claude Code, run the following commands:

/plugin marketplace add oxylabs/agent-skills
/plugin install oxylabs@oxylabs-agent-skills

This installs all 5 skills as a single plugin:

• skills/proxies
• skills/web-unblocker
• skills/web-scraper-api
• skills/headless-browser
• skills/video-data

To update skills, run this command:

/plugin marketplace update oxylabs-agent-skills

Other agents (generic)

For other agents and custom environments, load the repository into your project workspace via the standard skills CLI:

npx skills add https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills.git

Web Scraper API

web-scraper-api skill improves payload construction, custom parsing parameters, geo-targeting fields, and JSON output formatting when extracting data from any web targets using Oxylabs Web Scraper API.

Configuration

Add your Web Scraper API credentials to your project's local .env file:

Variable	Description
OXY_WSA_USERNAME	Your Web Scraper API user username.
OXY_WSA_PASSWORD	Your Web Scraper API user password.

How to use

Once the skill is active in your workspace, you can prompt your AI assistant to build full data scraping scripts.

• Example 1: "Write a Python script using Web Scraper API to scrape e-commerce-website.net with a custom parsing schema and US geo-targeting."
• Example 2: "Create a Node.js function that passes a list of URLs to the Web Scraper API endpoint to scrape and parse the JSON response."

Video Data

video-data skill covers video data extraction (metadata, search, channels) using Web Scraper API and yt-dlp video/audio file downloads via High-Bandwidth Proxy agent skill.

Configuration

All Oxylabs Agent Skills authenticate via environment variables defined in a .env file. To use video-data skills, add these keys to your .env file:

Variable	Description
OXY_WSA_USERNAME	Your Web Scraper API user username.
OXY_WSA_PASSWORD	Your Web Scraper API user password.
OXY_HB_ENDPOINT	(Optional) Your High-Bandwidth Proxy gateway string for media downloads. More details here.

How to use

Once the skill is active in your workspace, you can prompt your AI agent to write code tailored for public video content collection.

• Example 1: "Write a Python script using the Oxylabs Video Data API target to extract the full subtitle text and upload metadata of a specific video ID."
• Example 3: "Write a Node.js function that searches a video platform for a keyword string and extracts a structured JSON list of matching channel URLs."

More Oxylabs Agent Skills

Learn more about Agent Skills for other Oxylabs solutions:

• Proxies
• Web Unblocker
• Headless Browser