Open Researcher is an Open-source AI Research Assistant for Serious Researchers

amy 18/01/2026

What is Open Researcher?

Open Researcher is a self-hosted open-source tool that utilize Firecrawl’s web scrapping with advanced AI reasoning to help you do better research as analyzing and understanding any web content.

Note that it requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for AI and FIRECRAWL_API_KEY for web scrapping!

Open Researcher Features

  • AI-Powered Search: Intelligently search and analyze web content
  • Real-time Web Scraping: Powered by Firecrawl for accurate, up-to-date information
  • Thinking Display: See the AI’s reasoning process in real-time
  • Smart Citations: Automatic source tracking and citation generation
  • Split View Interface: Side-by-side view of chat and search results

Usage

  1. Basic Search: Enter your query in the chat interface
  2. Web Analysis: The AI will automatically search and analyze relevant web content
  3. Follow-up Questions: Ask follow-up questions to dive deeper
  4. View Sources: Click on citations to see source information

Tech Stack

  • Next.js 15 – React framework
  • TypeScript – Type safety
  • Tailwind CSS – Styling
  • Anthropic Claude – AI model
  • Firecrawl – Web scraping
  • Radix UI – UI components

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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