searching-and-extracting-web-with-parallel-clilisted

# Searching and Extracting Web Content with Parallel CLI ## Prerequisites - `parallel-cli` must be installed and available on `PATH`. - Verify authentication once per task when needed: - `parallel-cli auth` ## Non-goals - General file/URL-to-markdown conversion tasks. - OCR, image description, or audio transcription. - Unbounded browsing without a concrete search or extraction objective. - Interactive browser automation workflows (click/fill/login/stateful navigation). - Single-page interaction loops where the agent must act on DOM elements by node ID. - `parallel-cli` setup and account provisioning guidance. ## Default command profiles ### Search (default) ```bash parallel-cli search "<objective>" \ --mode fast \ --max-results 5 \ --excerpt-max-chars-per-result 800 \ --excerpt-max-chars-total 6000 ``` ### Search with source/recency constraints ```bash parallel-cli search "<objective>" \ --mode fast \ --max-results 5 \ --include-domains <domain1,domain2> \ --after-date YYYY-MM-DD \ --excerpt-max-chars-per-result 800 \ --excerpt-max-chars-total 6000 ``` ### Extract Use only selected URLs (best few first), and keep excerpts small. ```bash parallel-cli extract <url1> <url2> <url3> \ --objective "<what to pull out>" \ --excerpt-max-chars-per-result 700 \ --excerpt-max-chars-total 2100 ``` Notes: - `extract --no-excerpts` alone is invalid (it errors unless full content is requested). ## Refinement strategy If results are weak or nois