This repository provides official "agent skills" for Oxylabs' suite of data gathering products. It enables AI agents to interact with complex services like proxies, web unblockers, and scrapers through structured instructions, abstracting API complexities. This benefits developers and power users by simplifying the integration of robust data acquisition capabilities into AI workflows.

How It Works

The project offers five distinct skills: Proxies, Web Unblocker, Web Scraper API, Headless Browser, and Video Data. Each skill acts as an interface, translating high-level agent requests into specific API calls for the corresponding Oxylabs service. This design choice simplifies agent development by providing pre-built, structured logic for common data-gathering tasks, leveraging Oxylabs' infrastructure for reliability and scale.

Quick Start & Requirements

Installation for Claude Code involves running /plugin marketplace add oxylabs/agent-skills followed by /plugin install oxylabs@oxylabs-agent-skills. For other agents, use npx skills add https://github.com/oxylabs/agent-skills.git. Configuration requires setting environment variables for authentication, such as OXY_RES_USERNAME, OXY_DC_PASSWORD, OXYLABS_USERNAME, OXY_WSA_USERNAME, and OXY_HB_USERNAME, typically managed via a .env file.

Highlighted Details

• Proxies Skill: Integrates Residential, Mobile, Datacenter, and ISP proxy networks, offering geo-targeting, IP rotation, and session persistence.
• Web Unblocker Skill: Features AI-driven capabilities to overcome fingerprinting, render JavaScript, solve CAPTCHAs, and enhance access reliability for protected websites.
• Web Scraper API Skill: Delivers production-grade web scraping with automated JSON parsing for over 40 target types and supports geo-targeting.
• Headless Browser Skill: Provides remote access to headless browsers via CDP (Playwright/Puppeteer), including built-in request handling and residential proxy integration.
• Video Data Skill: Enables extraction of video metadata, subtitles, search results, and channel information, alongside high-bandwidth proxy video downloads.

Maintenance & Community

The provided README does not contain specific details regarding maintainers, community channels (like Discord or Slack), sponsorships, or a public roadmap.

Licensing & Compatibility

The README does not explicitly state the software license. Therefore, compatibility for commercial use or closed-source linking cannot be determined from the provided information.

Limitations & Caveats

No explicit limitations, alpha/beta status, known bugs, or deprecation warnings are mentioned in the provided README. Users should verify compatibility and functionality with their specific use cases.