tinyfish-cookbook

Use TinyFish for web search, fetching URLs, reading pages, current information, source-backed answers, research, docs, pricing/product pages, extraction, scraping, and browser automation. Use whenever the user asks to search, find, look up, research, compare, get information from the web, summarize a URL, fetch page content, or automate a website.

Monitor brand mentions, sentiment, and industry chatter across the web using TinyFish Search and Fetch. Use when a user asks to track what people are saying about a brand, product, or topic, run social listening, or get a pulse on public perception. If the user already named the target, proceed directly. Default time window is last 7 days. Always link every claim to its source URL.

Enrich a live Excel spreadsheet by researching missing data with TinyFish and writing results directly into the running Excel app via AppleScript. Use when a user says "fill in my spreadsheet", "enrich this Excel file", "research and fill missing data", "update my Excel sheet", "look up data for each row", or any request to populate empty cells in an open Excel workbook with web-sourced data. macOS only.

Enables Hermes to create new reusable skills for itself by researching live web sources with TinyFish Search and Fetch, analyzing source coverage, writing SKILL.md files, and installing them into Hermes memory. Use when the user asks Hermes to learn, teach itself, upgrade itself, or save a reusable capability.

Find paid open-source work, OSS bounties, open source grants, or ways to get paid contributing to open source. Use when someone asks any of the following — "find me paid open source work", "show me OSS bounties for Rust", "how do I get paid for open source", "find GitHub bounties", "are there any open source grants I can apply to", "I want to earn money contributing to open source", "find bounties for Python developers", "show me open source funding opportunities", "what repos are paying for contributions", "find me issues with bounties", "show me open source stipends", "I want to contribute to open source and get paid", "find developer grants", "show me NLNet grants", "GSoC alternatives", "paid open source issues". Accepts a stack (Rust, Python, Go, TypeScript, etc.) and optional keywords. Runs a 3-tier parallel TinyFish agent system; Tier 1 scrapes Algora and IssueHunt, Tier 2 fans out across awesome-list repos checking for bounty-labelled issues, Tier 3 scrapes NLNet, Sovereign Tech Fund, Mozilla MOSS, LFX

Get a live job market snapshot for any role and tech stack by deploying parallel TinyFish agents across LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor. Use when a developer wants real salary data, in-demand skills, top hiring companies, and remote ratios from actual job postings published this week — not survey averages or historical data. Triggers on phrases like "what is the market paying for", "salary range for", "is my salary competitive", "what should I ask for", "what skills do I need for", "who is hiring for", "how in-demand is", "before I negotiate", "job market for", "what does a [role] make", or any request to research compensation or demand for a specific role and tech stack before a job search or negotiation.

Reverse-engineer what a company is building by scraping their job postings, careers page, LinkedIn Jobs, and engineering blog using TinyFish web agents. Use whenever a user wants to understand a company's strategic direction from hiring signals, do competitive intelligence, figure out a tech stack from job descriptions, or evaluate whether a company is worth joining. Trigger on "what is [company] building", "what is [company] hiring for", "competitive intelligence", "[company] jobs", "should I join [company]", "hiring signals", "what teams are growing", "reverse engineer roadmap", or any request to understand a company's direction from public hiring activity. Always use this skill for company intelligence rather than guessing from memory. Also trigger when someone names a company and asks about strategy, tech stack, or org structure.

Map the research landscape for any technical or academic topic by searching arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar in parallel. Use when a developer, researcher, or engineer wants to understand what has been published, who the key authors are, which subtopics are active, and where the gaps still live. Runs parallel TinyFish agents across all three sources, deduplicates results, and synthesizes findings into a structured landscape report with a gap analysis. Trigger this skill whenever someone wants to survey a field, prepare a literature review, find underexplored research directions, or understand the state of the art before building something new.

Researches any project idea against live data from GitHub and Dev.to to surface what already exists, how mature the space is, and where the real opportunity lives. Use when a developer describes something they want to build and wants to know if it's been done before. Triggers on phrases like "validate my idea", "has this been built", "is this already a thing", "what exists for X", "should I build this", "is this idea original", "check if my project exists", "what are the alternatives to what I want to build", "is the market saturated for X", or any request to research the competitive landscape before starting a project.

Expose local ports to the internet as public HTTPS URLs using tinyfi.sh SSH tunnels. Use when you need to expose a locally running app, test webhooks, or give TinyFish access to a site that is only hosted locally — tunnel it first, then point TinyFish to the tunneled URL. No signup, no API key, no installation beyond SSH.

The complete web toolkit for your agent. Search the web and get answers in milliseconds. Fetch any URL and get clean markdown back. Send a browser agent to navigate sites, fill forms, and extract structured data. Spin up a headless browser for full programmatic control. Use when you need to search the web, extract/scrape data from websites, handle bot-protected sites, or automate browser tasks using natural language.

Build an Obsidian-compatible knowledge base from public web sources using the TinyFish CLI. Use this skill when a user wants a builder-grade markdown knowledge base on a technical topic, asks for a structured research vault, or wants a topic compiled from live public sources into interlinked markdown files. Supports two input modes: topic only, or topic plus starter URLs. Supports both first-build and update workflows. Always generates index.md, sources.md, audit.md, and manifest.json. Creates additional files only when the evidence supports them. The output must synthesize the topic into a usable mental model, not just summarize pages. Uses explicit tinyfish agent run commands and public web sources only. Optional `--trace` mode saves raw TinyFish outputs under `_trace/` for debugging.

Scrape real developer pain points for any keyword, technology, or problem space from Reddit, Hacker News, dev.to, and GitHub Discussions simultaneously — then group complaints by theme, score them by frequency and upvote weight, and return a ranked opportunity map showing where developer frustration is high and solutions are thin. Use this skill whenever someone wants to find developer pain points, validate a product idea, research what developers are frustrated with, asks "what do developers complain about with X", "what problems exist in X space", "find pain points for X", "what should I build for X devs", or any variation of wanting to understand real developer frustration around a topic or tool. Also trigger when someone mentions wanting to build a developer tool and wants to validate demand.

Check every dependency in a package.json against live CVE databases and security advisories in real time — specifically targeting vulnerabilities disclosed in the last 48 hours, the window that Snyk, Dependabot, and npm audit miss. Use this skill whenever a user mentions checking dependencies for vulnerabilities, wants to audit their package.json, asks about CVEs for their packages, says "are my dependencies safe", "check my packages for security issues", "any new vulnerabilities in my deps", or pastes a package.json and asks about security. Also trigger when a user mentions wanting fresher data than Snyk or Dependabot provides. Returns: which dependencies have brand-new vulnerabilities, severity, what the vulnerability does, whether a patched version exists yet, and a prioritised fix list.

Generate a structured interview preparation guide for any company by scraping real candidate experiences from Glassdoor, Blind, and Reddit in real time using parallel TinyFish agents. Use this skill whenever a user mentions preparing for an interview at a specific company, wants to know what a company's interview process is like, asks "what questions does X ask", "how hard is X's interview", "what should I prepare for X", "X interview experience", or any variation of wanting to know what actually happens in interviews at a named company. Returns a structured prep guide: most frequent topics, real questions that came up, actual difficulty level, what candidates wish they had studied, and role-specific patterns.

Find actively maintained open source alternatives to any paid SaaS tool or commercial API. Use this skill whenever a user mentions wanting to replace, swap out, self-host, or find a free/open source version of a paid tool — including but not limited to tools like Datadog, Algolia, Twilio, Stripe, Auth0, Segment, Mixpanel, Intercom, PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly, SendGrid, Cloudinary, or any other commercial developer tool or API. Also trigger when the user says things like "is there an open source version of X", "I don't want to pay for X", "self-host alternative to X", or "what can I use instead of X for free". Runs parallel TinyFish agents to search GitHub and developer communities, then checks the real health of each candidate — last release, contributor count, stars, Docker support, and feature parity — and returns a ranked comparison with a plain English gain/loss summary.

Discover and compare summer school programs from universities around the world. Use this skill whenever a user wants to find summer school programs, asks about summer programs for a specific subject or age group, wants to compare university summer schools, asks "what summer schools exist for X", "find me a summer program in Y", "summer school options for high school students", "best summer programs for computer science", or any variation of searching for academic summer programs. Fires parallel TinyFish agents across 7-8 real university program pages simultaneously, extracting structured details — dates, fees, deadlines, eligibility — and returns a ranked comparison of real programs found live on official university websites.

Find open Singapore government tenders for any sector in real time using parallel TinyFish agents scraping multiple government tender portals simultaneously. Use this skill whenever a user wants to find government tenders, asks "find tenders for IT in Singapore", "what government contracts are open for construction", "Singapore tenders closing soon", "GeBIZ tenders for healthcare", or any variation of searching for government procurement opportunities in Singapore. Supported sectors: IT / Software, Construction, Healthcare, Consulting, Logistics, Education. Scrapes GeBIZ, Tenders On Time, Bid Detail, Tenders Info, and Global Tenders simultaneously — returning only open tenders with upcoming deadlines.

Find fresh freelance and contract opportunities across multiple platforms for any skill set. Use this skill when a user asks "find me freelance React jobs", "Upwork gigs for Python developers", "freelance work posted this week", "contract jobs for designers", "find me remote freelance opportunities for [skill]", "I'm looking for freelance work", "what freelance gigs are available for [skill]", or any request to find paid freelance or contract work online.

Find hackathons tailored to your tech profile and location by searching Devpost, Luma, Partiful, MLH, and Eventbrite. Use this skill when a user asks "find me a hackathon", "are there any hackathons near me", "what hackathons are coming up", "I want to compete in a hackathon", "find hackathons I could win", "upcoming hackathons in [city]", "online hackathons for [skill/tech]", or any request to discover hackathon opportunities.

Find and set up coding practice problems tailored to your weak areas, then create local files so you can solve them right away. Use this skill when a user wants to practice coding, asks for a LeetCode problem, says "give me a coding challenge", "I want to practice DSA", "help me prep for coding interviews", "find me a problem to solve", "I'm weak at dynamic programming", "quiz me on algorithms", or any request to practice coding with a specific language or topic focus.

Compare two or more npm packages side by side using live data — downloads, bundle size, GitHub stars, last update, known vulnerabilities, and community sentiment. Use this skill when a user asks "zustand vs jotai vs redux", "compare react-query and swr", "which state management library should I use", "what's the difference between X and Y", "is X better than Y for my use case", "help me choose between these packages", or any request to compare npm packages or decide between JavaScript libraries.

Scan live job boards and salary databases to find real-time compensation data for any role and location. Use this skill when a user asks "what's the going rate for a senior React engineer in London", "software engineer salary Singapore", "how much do ML engineers make", "what should I be earning as a [role]", "is my salary competitive", "what does [company] pay for [role]", "salary range for [job title] in [city]", or any request to find out what a role pays in a specific market.

Research an interviewer online before a meeting using parallel TinyFish agents and return a structured prep report. Use this skill when a user says "research my interviewer", "I have an interview with [name] at [company]", "stalk my interviewer", "find out about [person] before my interview", "who is my interviewer", "prepare for interview with [name]", "look up my interviewer", or any request to learn about a specific person before meeting them professionally.

Reverse-engineer a company's tech stack from public signals — job listings, StackShare, GitHub, engineering blog, and their live website. Use this skill when a user asks "what tech does Stripe use", "what's Linear's stack", "what does Notion run on", "reverse engineer [company]'s tech stack", "what framework does [company] use", "how is [company] built", "what languages does [company] hire for", or any request to figure out what technology a company uses under the hood.

Monitor competitor product releases and new feature announcements. Use this skill when the user wants to track what competitors are shipping, find the latest product launches in their industry, or generate a competitor release report. Triggers include phrases like "track competitor releases", "what are my competitors launching", "monitor competitor products", "competitor product report", or any request to watch a rival company's product updates.