Search TeX questions.

Searches TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange, the Q&A site for LaTeX, TikZ, BibTeX and typesetting, like its search page: question title, link, excerpt, vote count and answer count. Returns the first results page only.

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Site: TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange, United States
Version: v1
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sha256: a0f5d71cde4c…

Run it with your agent

after installing Wield

Ask in plain words. Your agent finds this recipe and calls it:

“Search TeX questions.”

Read-only: it changes nothing on the site. No login needed.

{
  "tool": "run",
  "arguments": {
    "recipe_id": "tex.stackexchange.com/search-questions",
    "params": {
      "query": "tikz arrows"
    }
  }
}

Requests

sent from your browser, in order

1GET/search?qThe site's search results page for the query. Each result is a div.s-post-summary card.

Parameters

from your agent

querystringrequiredWhat to search for, e.g. 'tikz arrows', 'bibliography'

Returns

to your agent

itemsobject[]answers, excerpt, title, url, votes

querystring

Where it can send

tex.stackexchange.com

Anything else is blocked by the extension.

Reads from your session

Nothing. Your browser attaches the site's cookies by itself.

Used only in requests to the addresses on the left. Never sent to wield.run or your agent.

Checks

a run passes when

length(output.items) > `0`
length(output.items[?starts_with(url, 'https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/')]) == length(output.items)
length(output.items[?title != `null`]) == length(output.items)

Raw recipe

Served as canonical JSON from /api/v1/recipes/tex.stackexchange.com/search-questions, so its sha256 matches the ETag and the index.

Check it yourself

curl -s https://wield.run/api/v1/recipes/tex.stackexchange.com/search-questions | shasum -a 256
# a0f5d71cde4c9c1a9d3ecbd737ed7dc88fcfbc714c7d937295044afb032eb078

tex.stackexchange.com/search-questions.json, v1

{
  "description": "Searches TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange, the Q&A site for LaTeX, TikZ, BibTeX and typesetting, like its search page: question title, link, excerpt, vote count and answer count. Returns the first results page only.",
  "effect": "read",
  "id": "tex.stackexchange.com/search-questions",
  "keywords": [
    "tex",
    "latex",
    "tikz",
    "bibliography",
    "beamer",
    "typesetting",
    "typography",
    "documents",
    "questions",
    "answers",
    "stack exchange",
    "tex.stackexchange.com",
    "math typesetting"
  ],
  "output": {
    "schema": {
      "properties": {
        "items": {
          "items": {
            "properties": {
              "answers": {
                "description": "Number of answers, null when there are none",
                "type": [
                  "number",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "excerpt": {
                "description": "Start of the question text, may be truncated",
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "title": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "url": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "votes": {
                "description": "Question score",
                "type": [
                  "number",
                  "null"
                ]
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "title",
              "url"
            ],
            "type": "object"
          },
          "type": "array"
        },
        "query": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "query",
        "items"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "value": "{query: params.query, items: steps.search.entries[?title != `null` && href != `null`][].{title: title, url: join('', ['https://tex.stackexchange.com', href]), excerpt: excerpt, votes: to_number(votes), answers: to_number(answers)}}"
  },
  "params": {
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
      "query": {
        "description": "What to search for, e.g. 'tikz arrows', 'bibliography'",
        "maxLength": 100,
        "minLength": 2,
        "type": "string"
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "query"
    ],
    "type": "object"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "method": "har",
    "notes": "One GET to /search?q=<query>, which answers 200 HTML with server-rendered div.s-post-summary cards. Question links are relative and made absolute on tex.stackexchange.com. Layout matches the other Stack Exchange sites.",
    "recorded_at": "2026-11-08T16:40:00Z",
    "recorded_by": "wield-forge (claude-haiku agent)"
  },
  "requires_login": false,
  "schema": "https://wield.run/schema/recipe/v1.json",
  "site": {
    "country": "US",
    "id": "tex.stackexchange.com",
    "language": "en",
    "name": "TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange",
    "origin": "https://tex.stackexchange.com",
    "origins": [
      "https://tex.stackexchange.com"
    ]
  },
  "steps": [
    {
      "description": "The site's search results page for the query. Each result is a div.s-post-summary card.",
      "expect": {
        "content_type": "html",
        "status": [
          200
        ]
      },
      "extract": {
        "html_items": {
          "entries": {
            "fields": {
              "answers": {
                "selector": "div.s-post-summary--stats-item.has-answers .s-post-summary--stats-item-number"
              },
              "excerpt": {
                "selector": "div.s-post-summary--content-excerpt"
              },
              "href": {
                "attr": "href",
                "selector": "h3.s-post-summary--content-title a.s-link"
              },
              "title": {
                "selector": "h3.s-post-summary--content-title a.s-link"
              },
              "votes": {
                "selector": "div.s-post-summary--stats-item__emphasized .s-post-summary--stats-item-number"
              }
            },
            "max": 30,
            "selector": "div.s-post-summary"
          }
        }
      },
      "id": "search",
      "request": {
        "headers": {
          "Accept": "text/html"
        },
        "method": "GET",
        "query": {
          "q": "{{ params.query }} is:question"
        },
        "url": "/search"
      }
    }
  ],
  "task": "Search TeX questions",
  "tos": {
    "notes": "Not reviewed. One search page per call, the same page a visitor loads. The site's terms on automated access were not checked.",
    "reviewed": false
  },
  "verify": {
    "checks": [
      "length(output.items) > `0`",
      "length(output.items[?starts_with(url, 'https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/')]) == length(output.items)",
      "length(output.items[?title != `null`]) == length(output.items)"
    ],
    "example_params": {
      "query": "tikz arrows"
    },
    "max_ms": 5000
  },
  "version": 1
}