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🦞 OpenClaw — Start Here (Curated List)

~100 APIs that are the best fit for OpenClaw. Use this list first; only browse the full list when you need something specific.


How to use

  1. Pick an API below (MCP = plug in directly; others = wrap as a skill).
  2. Add your API key in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json under skills.entries.<name> if the API needs one.
  3. For MCP servers, use OpenClaws MCP integration — no skill required for basic tools.

MCP servers (plug in directly)

API What it does OpenClaw use
Brave Search MCP Server Private search via Brave Web search from the assistant
Google Search MCP Server Real-time Google SERPs Search from the assistant
Tavily MCP Server Web search + extraction via Tavily Research, citations
Exa MCP Server Semantic search (mcp.exa.ai) Deep search for the assistant
Firecrawl MCP Server Web scrape → clean content “Fetch this page” / RAG
Perplexity Sonar MCP Server Real-time web search (Perplexity API) Answer questions with live web
Web Search MCP Server Real-time web search for agents General search tool
Google Calendar Create Event Create Google Calendar events via MCP “Schedule a meeting”
Google calendar Cancel Appointment (MCP) Cancel Google Calendar events “Cancel my 3pm”
Google Maps MCP Businesses, reviews, contact info “Find a restaurant near X”
Google Sheet MCP SERVER Read/write Google Sheets Spreadsheet automation
Slack MCP Channels, messages, send updates “Post to Slack” / read threads
Discord MCP Server Discord tools for AI automation Bot + automation
WhatsApp Cloud API MCP WhatsApp Business API via MCP “Send WhatsApp” from assistant
Home Assistant MCP Server Control smart home (lights, climate, etc.) “Turn off living room lights”
Open Meteo MCP Server Weather, air quality, geocoding “Whats the weather?”
Weather MCP Server Weather via Open-Meteo API Simple weather tool
DeepL MCP Server Translation (DeepL API) “Translate this”
Wikipedia MCP Server Wikipedia articles, summaries Quick fact lookup
ArXiv MCP server Search & read arXiv papers Research / citations
PubMed MCP Server Biomedical literature Medical/scientific lookup
Doc To Markdown MCP Server PDF/Word/Excel → Markdown “Summarize this PDF”
Markitdown Mcp Server 29+ doc formats → Markdown RAG / doc ingestion
API Doc Mcp Scrape docs, make searchable for AI “Look up API for X”
Docfork MCP Server 9000+ libraries docs + code examples Dev reference in chat
Calculator MCP server Precise numerical calculations Math in the assistant
Dictionary MCP Server Define, synonyms, example usage “Define X”
Time MCP Server Time-related operations Timezone / time queries
Kiwi MCP Server Flight search (Kiwi.com) “Find flights to X”
Hubspot MCP Server Contacts, prospects (HubSpot) CRM from the assistant
Browserbase MCP Server Browser automation (Browserbase) “Browse this page”
Playwright MCP Server Browser automation (Playwright) Scraping / automation
CVE Search MCP Server CVE (security) lookup “CVEs for product X”
Financial Datasets MCP Server Stock/financial data “Stock data for X”
GA4 MCP Google Analytics 4 “Traffic for my site”
FetchSERP MCP Server SEO, SERP, keyword research “SERP for keyword X”
GSC MCP Google Search Console SEO insights in chat
WordPress MCP Server WordPress REST API (publish, update) “Publish this post”
Zendesk MCP Server Zendesk integration Support tickets from chat
Mcp Research Server Web + academic search, doc Q&A “Research topic X”
MCP Reddit Reddit posts, search, sentiment “Whats on Reddit for X”
Openapi To Mcp Converter Turn any OpenAPI spec into MCP Use any REST API as MCP

Integrations & productivity (great as skills)

API What it does OpenClaw use
Open Weather Map Weather by location “Weather in Paris” skill
Any Website URL to Article Summarizer URL → summary “Summarize this link” skill
AI Search Tool - Real-Time Web Search Web/news/image/video search Research skill
YouTube Transcript Downloader + Timestamp Export YouTube → transcript “Summarize this video” skill
Youtube Transcript Scraper Bulk YouTube transcripts Video research skill
Job Search Engines LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor in one call “Find jobs” skill
AI Travel Agent Trip planning, flights, stays “Plan my trip” skill
AI Real Estate Agent Listings by criteria “Find properties” skill
AI Newsletter Agent Curated newsletters by topic “Daily digest” skill
Company Research Intelligence Tool Domain → company report “Research company X” skill

Automation & webhooks

API What it does OpenClaw use
n8n Documentation MCP Server n8n node docs for building workflows Build workflows from chat
Natural Language Dataset Query NL queries on Apify datasets (MCP) “Query my dataset”
nova-mcp-server Load your chosen Apify actors as MCP tools Dynamic tool loading

More by category (browse when you need them)


Less is more. Start with 23 APIs from the tables above, wire them as MCP or skills, then add more as you need. The full list (10k+ APIs) is there when you want to go deeper.

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