crewai-anakin

CrewAI tools for Anakin: scrape, search, map and crawl the web, run deep research, use pre-built Wire actions on hundreds of sites, monitor pages for changes, compare AI answer engines and drive a cloud browser.

All 22 tools of Anakin's hosted MCP server (mcp.anakin.io), as CrewAI tools, built on the official anakin-sdk client.

Install

pip install crewai-anakin
export ANAKIN_API_KEY=...   # free at https://anakin.io/dashboard

Requires Python 3.10 to 3.13 (the versions CrewAI supports) and crewai 1.0 or later.

Use with an agent

from crewai import Agent, Crew, Task
from crewai_anakin import get_anakin_tools

researcher = Agent(
    role="Market researcher",
    goal="Answer questions with facts from the web, citing the pages used",
    backstory="An analyst who checks sources before answering.",
    tools=get_anakin_tools(),
)

task = Task(
    description="What do the top three CRM vendors charge per seat?",
    expected_output="A table of vendor, plan and price per seat, with source URLs.",
    agent=researcher,
)

print(Crew(agents=[researcher], tasks=[task]).kickoff())

get_anakin_tools() returns every tool, sharing one API client. To give an agent only some, use the tool classes directly:

from crewai_anakin import AnakinCrawlTool, AnakinScrapeTool, AnakinSearchTool

tools = [AnakinSearchTool(), AnakinScrapeTool(), AnakinCrawlTool()]

Options

get_anakin_tools(
    api_key=None,  # defaults to ANAKIN_API_KEY
    read_only=False,  # True leaves out the 7 tools that change something
    allow_financial_actions=False,  # see "Payments" below
    poll_timeout=600.0,  # seconds to wait for scrapes, crawls and research
    client=None,  # or pass your own anakin.Anakin client
)

The same settings (api_key, poll_timeout, allow_financial_actions, base_url, client) work on each tool class.

read_only=True leaves out the tools that change something on a website or in the user's Anakin account, or that start a long paid job: anakin_wire_write_action, anakin_wire_login, anakin_wire_build, anakin_monitor_create, anakin_monitor_control, anakin_session_delete and anakin_browser_task.

Payments. Like Anakin's hosted MCP server, anakin_wire_write_action, anakin_wire_build and anakin_browser_task refuse requests that look like they complete a payment or move money (checkout, place order, pay now, wire transfer, ...). "Add to cart" and every read are allowed. allow_financial_actions=True turns this off.

Tools

Each tool returns JSON. Tool names match the hosted MCP server's, prefixed with anakin_.

Errors

Anakin API errors raise anakin.errors.AnakinError (and its subclasses, such as AuthenticationError or InsufficientCreditsError). CrewAI passes a tool's error back to the agent, which can retry or explain it.

Development

uv sync
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check . && uv run ruff format --check .
uv run mypy src

Releases publish to PyPI from GitHub Actions when a v* tag matching the version in pyproject.toml is pushed.

License

MIT