• KNOWLEDGE
  • VIDEO
  • ANALYSIS
  • HUMAN

How to automate search engine research with your AI

Connect ScrapingBee to your AI client once. From then on, your agent can pull live data from the web to answer any research question.

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Short answer

How can I make my AI do web research?

Your agent uses ScrapingBee to run live searches on Google and YouTube. It pulls the actual results into your chat so you can build knowledge bases or research briefs. You'll see how the agent handles this data below.

Research outcomes

What your agent produces

The results of your research requests.

KNOWLEDGE

Custom knowledge bases

The AI scrapes specific search results to build a structured dataset. You get a concentrated source of truth based on current web content.

VIDEO

YouTube intelligence

By pulling YouTube results, your agent can summarize video trends or specific channel content. This turns video data into text you can use.

ANALYSIS

Competitive research

The agent monitors search rankings and content gaps. It identifies what is currently appearing in search results for your target keywords.

HUMAN

Final verification

The AI provides the raw data and summaries, but you decide which insights are worth keeping. You remain the editor for all final reports.

The workflow

What your AI does when the request arrives.

The agent moves from a simple prompt to a structured research report.

  1. Targeting

    Your agent identifies the specific search intent and determines which platform holds the best data for your query.

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  2. Extraction

    The agent executes the search and pulls the live text and metadata from the results pages.

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  3. Synthesis

    The AI processes the raw search data to find patterns, answers, or specific information you asked for.

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  4. Formatting

    The agent organizes the findings into a clean report, list, or knowledge base structure.

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Try it

Copy these to start.

Use these prompts to kick off your research.

Starting points

These are opening lines. Swap out the bracketed text with your specific topics or keywords.

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Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — ScrapingBee capabilities are ready to use.
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  • Search Google for the latest news on [topic] and summarize the top five results.

  • Find the most recent videos about [topic] on YouTube and list the key takeaways.

  • Research [competitor name] on Google to see what their current search presence looks like.

  • Build a knowledge base about [subject] by pulling recent search results from both Google and YouTube.

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FAQ

How the research task behaves

  • 01

    Can the AI browse any website?

    No. The AI is limited to the search capabilities provided by the search_google and search_youtube tools.

  • 02

    Will the AI buy things or sign up for accounts?

    No. The AI can only read and pull data from search results. It cannot perform actions like making purchases or creating accounts.

  • 03

    Does the AI save these search results for me?

    The AI processes the data in your current chat session. It does not automatically save a permanent database unless you copy the output into your own files.

  • 04

    Can it watch the actual video files on YouTube?

    No. It pulls search results and metadata from YouTube, not the raw video stream itself.

  • 05

    How does it handle paywalled content?

    No. The tools can only access information that is publicly available through standard search engine indexing.

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