OpenSurfer

Terminal-based AI research agent. Search the web, read any site, get sourced answers — from your terminal, with any LLM.

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OpenSurfer is a fork of OpenCode repurposed as a research and browsing agent. Instead of writing code, it searches the web, fetches content from 25+ sites natively (no JS walls, no logins for most), and synthesizes sourced answers.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PewterZz/opensurfer/dev/install | bash

Then set a provider key and start:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
# or OPENAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, or configure Ollama
opensurfer

Update: re-run the same install command — it detects the installed version and only downloads if newer.

What works out of the box

• Reddit, Twitter/X, Hacker News, GitHub, HuggingFace, Stack Overflow
• Wikipedia, arXiv, Substack, dev.to, Lobste.rs
• ICLR/NeurIPS (OpenReview), CVPR/ECCV (CVF), ICML (PMLR), ACL papers
• Medium, NYT, Bloomberg, FT, WSJ (paywall bypass)
• YouTube transcripts

See packages/opencode/README.md for full documentation.

License

MIT