I Built a Self-Hosted Web Layer for AI Agents
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
The Problem If you're building AI agents that need to interact with the web, you're probably wiring together: A search API (Tavily, Brave, etc.) Playwright or Puppeteer for browsing A cookie manager for auth Custom scripts for each platform you want to post to I got tired of this. So I built Spectrawl - one Node.js package that does all of it. What It Does Search across 8 engines with automatic fallback: gemini-grounded → tavily → brave Gemini Grounded Search gives you Google-quality results through their API. 5,000 free queries/month.