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Fixes #7306
The Oxylabs tools (added in #2905) reach the API correctly, but they mishandle
every response that isn't a success. All four tools did an unchecked
response.results[0], and the oxylabs SDK logs HTTP errors and returns an
empty response rather than raising — so a rejected request surfaced as
IndexError: list index out of range.

Invalid credentials, the most likely first-run mistake, produced exactly that
and nothing else.

What was wrong

  1. Rejected requests raised IndexError. Bad credentials, config options a
    source doesn't accept, or exhausted quota all hit this path. The real error
    was only ever written to the oxylabs.internal.api logger.

  2. Failed scrapes were returned as successes. A result with a non-2xx
    status_code (e.g. a 404 for a nonexistent ASIN) carries empty content. The
    tools returned it, so the agent received "[]" as though the scrape had
    worked. The status_code was on the result object, unread.

  3. Non-dict content was returned as a Python repr. Only dict was
    JSON-encoded, with a str() fallback. parsing_instructions commonly yields
    a list, so agents got [{'title': '...'}] — single-quoted and not parseable.

  4. oxylabs was hard-pinned to ==2.0.0, while 3.0.0 has been out since
    March.

  5. The Google config silently dropped locale, which the docs documented as
    a supported parameter.

Changes

  • Failed and rejected requests now return a ToolFailure, so the agent gets an
    actionable message and the framework records the call as failed instead of
    counting it as a success. Retryable is set for 429 and 5xx.
  • Non-string content is JSON-serialized.
  • Added locale to OxylabsGoogleSearchScraperConfig.
  • Relaxed the pin to oxylabs>=2.0.0,<4. The lockfile keeps oxylabs at 2.0.0,
    so this permits the upgrade without forcing it.
  • Moved the client construction and response handling that all four tools
    duplicated verbatim into a shared OxylabsBaseTool, following the existing
    SerpApiBaseTool pattern, so the response handling above lives in one place
    rather than being copy-pasted four times. Net −318 lines.
  • Fixed two docs copy-paste errors (Amazon Search's domain was described as
    "Domain localization for Bestbuy"; a Google Seach typo), synced across
    en, ar, ko, and pt-BR.

tool.specs.json is regenerated; the only change is the new locale field,
which confirms the refactor left the tools' public surface untouched.

Testing

All four tools were verified against the live Oxylabs API on both
oxylabs==2.0.0 and oxylabs==3.0.0 (3.x keeps the RealtimeClient surface
these tools use):

Tool Live result
OxylabsUniversalScraperTool pass
OxylabsGoogleSearchScraperTool pass
OxylabsAmazonSearchScraperTool pass
OxylabsAmazonProductScraperTool pass

Each failure mode was reproduced against the live API before and after the fix
(invalid credentials, a 404 ASIN, config a source rejects, and
parsing_instructions returning a list), and the new locale option was
confirmed to reach the API.

Verified end-to-end in a real Crew: on success the agent gets the scraped
data, and on failure it now receives a usable message and the failure is
recorded on the task output:

Tool 'oxylabs_amazon_product_scraper_tool' failed: Oxylabs Web Scraper API
could not retrieve the page: the target responded with status 404. (code: 404)

Added 24 tests covering the failure paths across all four tools. ruff check,
ruff format, mypy, and the full lib/crewai-tools/ suite (451 tests) pass.

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Oxylabs scraper tools now share response and failure handling. Concurrent SDK errors remain isolated by scrape context. Tests cover failed requests, retryability, serialization, concurrency, and locale forwarding. Tool specifications and localized documentation were updated.

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Oxylabs failure handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Concurrent SDK error capture
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/oxylabs_base_tool/oxylabs_base_tool.py
A shared logger handler routes SDK errors to the active scrape context. A lock protects handler installation.
Scraper tool migration
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/oxylabs_*_scraper_tool/*.py
The four scraper tools inherit from OxylabsBaseTool and delegate scraping and response processing to shared methods. Google search accepts an optional locale.
Failure validation and documentation
lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_oxylabs_tools.py, lib/crewai-tools/tool.specs.json, docs/edge/{ar,en,ko,pt-BR}/tools/web-scraping/oxylabsscraperstool.mdx
Tests cover empty responses, HTTP errors, retryability, missing content, JSON serialization, SDK log diagnosis, configuration validation, locale forwarding, and concurrent diagnosis. The tool specification adds locale. Localized documentation corrects Google Search spelling and Amazon domain descriptions.

Suggested reviewers: vidit-ostwal

Priority: ➖ Normal — Impact reflects medium issue severity.

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1a005

Oxylabs tools now return structured failures and retry guidance, but malformed responses, fallback dependency installation, and invalid configuration can still produce incorrect failures or initialization behavior. These issues should be resolved before merge.

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lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/oxylabs_base_tool/oxylabs_base_tool.py (2)

117-121: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add a fallback for the crewai version lookup.

version("crewai") raises PackageNotFoundError if the distribution metadata is absent, for example in a source checkout that is not installed. That failure blocks tool construction for a value that is only telemetry in the sdk_type string.

♻️ Proposed fallback
+from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
...
+        try:
+            crewai_version = version("crewai")
+        except PackageNotFoundError:
+            crewai_version = "unknown"
+
         bits, _ = architecture()
         return realtime_client(
             username=username,
             password=password,
             sdk_type=(
                 f"oxylabs-crewai-sdk-python/"
-                f"{version('crewai')} "
+                f"{crewai_version} "
                 f"({python_version()}; {bits})"
             ),
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In
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around lines 117 - 121, Update the sdk_type construction to handle a missing
crewai distribution by catching PackageNotFoundError from version("crewai") and
using a suitable fallback version string, while preserving the installed-package
version when available.

150-173: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Read content with the same tolerance as status_code.

Line 151 tolerates a result object without a status_code attribute. Line 165 assumes content exists. If a result lacks content, AttributeError propagates to the agent. That is the same unhandled-exception class this change removes for IndexError.

Use getattr so both attribute reads behave consistently.

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-        content = result.content
+        content = getattr(result, "content", None)
         if content is None:
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In
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around lines 150 - 173, Update the content read in the Oxylabs result handling
flow to use the same tolerant attribute access as status_code, so a result
without content reaches the existing empty-content ToolFailure path instead of
propagating AttributeError. Keep the current content validation and failure
response unchanged.
lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_oxylabs_tools.py (2)

162-167: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a regression test for locale.

The new shared cases do not pass a Google configuration containing locale. Add a Google-specific behavior test that asserts OxylabsGoogleSearchScraperTool forwards locale to google.scrape_search.

As per coding guidelines: **/*test*.py: Write unit tests for new functionality, focusing on behavior rather than implementation details.

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Add a Google-specific unit test for OxylabsGoogleSearchScraperTool that supplies
a locale configuration and asserts google.scrape_search receives and forwards
that locale, while preserving the existing shared tool cases.

Source: Coding guidelines


196-200: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the lower 5xx boundary.

The retryability cases include 503 but not 500. Add 500 to protect the lower boundary of the stated 5xx retryability contract.

Suggested test case
-    [(404, False), (429, True), (503, True)],
+    [(404, False), (429, True), (500, True), (503, True)],

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In `@lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_oxylabs_tools.py` around lines 196 - 200,
Add the 500 status case with retryable set to true in the parameter list for the
test parametrization covering ALL_TOOL_CLASSES, preserving the existing 404,
429, and 503 cases.

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Inline comments:
In
`@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/oxylabs_base_tool/oxylabs_base_tool.py`:
- Around line 60-68: Update the config initialization in the Oxylabs base tool
to retrieve the config field through a guarded lookup, so subclasses without a
config field reach the intended TypeError instead of raising KeyError. Preserve
the existing annotation check and default config-model construction for declared
fields.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/oxylabs_base_tool/oxylabs_base_tool.py`:
- Around line 117-121: Update the sdk_type construction to handle a missing
crewai distribution by catching PackageNotFoundError from version("crewai") and
using a suitable fallback version string, while preserving the installed-package
version when available.
- Around line 150-173: Update the content read in the Oxylabs result handling
flow to use the same tolerant attribute access as status_code, so a result
without content reaches the existing empty-content ToolFailure path instead of
propagating AttributeError. Keep the current content validation and failure
response unchanged.

In `@lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_oxylabs_tools.py`:
- Around line 162-167: Add a Google-specific unit test for
OxylabsGoogleSearchScraperTool that supplies a locale configuration and asserts
google.scrape_search receives and forwards that locale, while preserving the
existing shared tool cases.
- Around line 196-200: Add the 500 status case with retryable set to true in the
parameter list for the test parametrization covering ALL_TOOL_CLASSES,
preserving the existing 404, 429, and 503 cases.
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58-69: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the subclass configuration before building the client.

The guard runs only when config is None, and _build_client runs first. A subclass without a config field can bypass the intended validation by passing a config value, and invalid construction can create the SDK client before raising TypeError.

Move the field lookup before client construction. Validate it unconditionally, then create the default model only when config is None.

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     ) -> None:
+        config_field = type(self).model_fields.get("config")
+        config_model = config_field.annotation if config_field else None
+        if config_model is None:
+            raise TypeError(
+                f"{type(self).__name__} must declare a 'config' model field"
+            )
+        if config is None:
+            config = config_model()
+
         if username is None or password is None:
             username, password = self._get_credentials_from_env()

         kwargs["oxylabs_api"] = self._build_client(username, password)

-        if config is None:
-            config_field = type(self).model_fields.get("config")
-            config_model = config_field.annotation if config_field else None
-            if config_model is None:
-                raise TypeError(
-                    f"{type(self).__name__} must declare a 'config' model field"
-                )
-            config = config_model()
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         super().__init__(config=config, **kwargs)
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value is provided. Keep default model instantiation conditional on config being
None, then create the Oxylabs client only after validation and defaulting
complete.

101-104: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Translate missing uv into the documented import error.

If uv is not installed, subprocess.run raises FileNotFoundError, not CalledProcessError. Catch OSError with subprocess.CalledProcessError so the fallback raises the documented ImportError.

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around lines 101 - 104, Update the exception handling around subprocess.run in
the Oxylabs package installation path to catch both
subprocess.CalledProcessError and OSError, including FileNotFoundError when uv
is unavailable, and continue raising the documented ImportError from the
original exception.

102-102: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the declared Oxylabs version constraint for runtime installation.

pyproject.toml constrains Oxylabs to >=2.0.0,<4, but this command uses an unconstrained requirement. Pass "oxylabs>=2.0.0,<4" to uv add to prevent future incompatible releases from being installed.

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at line 102, Update the runtime installation command in OxylabsBaseTool to pass
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- Around line 58-69: In the initialization flow, move the config field lookup
and validation before the _build_client call, and perform that validation
unconditionally so subclasses must declare a config model even when a config
value is provided. Keep default model instantiation conditional on config being
None, then create the Oxylabs client only after validation and defaulting
complete.
- Around line 101-104: Update the exception handling around subprocess.run in
the Oxylabs package installation path to catch both
subprocess.CalledProcessError and OSError, including FileNotFoundError when uv
is unavailable, and continue raising the documented ImportError from the
original exception.
- Line 102: Update the runtime installation command in OxylabsBaseTool to pass
the declared constrained requirement “oxylabs>=2.0.0,<4” to uv add instead of
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@Vidit-Ostwal was this closed intentionally? Happy to accept the decision, but
wanted to check in case it was caught by a triage sweep, since no reason was given.

For context on the state it was closed in: the nine workflows were still sitting in
"awaiting approval" for fork PRs, so CI never actually ran — the failed runs on
this PR executed zero jobs and were only finalized as failures when the PR closed.
There was also no human review. So there's no feedback here I can act on, and no
signal that anything is wrong with the change.

The underlying bug is still present on main: every Oxylabs tool does an unchecked
response.results[0], and the oxylabs SDK logs HTTP errors and returns an empty
response rather than raising — so invalid credentials surface to the user as
IndexError: list index out of range, and a non-2xx result is returned as "[]" as
though the scrape had succeeded.

I tried to reopen this myself, but that needs write access on the repo, so I can't —
could a maintainer reopen it? Alternatively I'm happy to open a fresh PR against
current main; just say which you'd prefer. Two further offers to make review easier:

  • If the size is the concern, I'm glad to split it — the bug fixes in one PR and
    the OxylabsBaseTool extraction in another. They're bundled because the same three
    fixes would otherwise be copy-pasted into four files; the regenerated
    tool.specs.json shows no change beyond the new locale field, which is evidence
    the refactor left the tools' public surface untouched.
  • Happy to rebase — the branch is currently 70 commits behind main.

I work at Oxylabs and can verify changes against the live API, so I'm able to maintain
this integration going forward. maintainer_can_modify is enabled if you'd rather push
changes directly.

One thing I can't do from a fork either: apply the llm-generated label that
CONTRIBUTING.md requires (labeling also needs write access). Could that be added too?
It's disclosed in the description as well.

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Mind opening an issue to track this better, ?

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Thanks — opened as #7306.

It documents the three failure modes with a reproduction that needs no Oxylabs
account
(invalid credentials are enough to trigger the IndexError), so it should
be quick to confirm.

The fix here in #7044 is ready whenever you'd like to pick it up — happy to split it
into two PRs (bug fixes / the OxylabsBaseTool extraction) or rebase onto current
main, whichever is easier to review. Just let me know whether to raise a fresh PR
or whether you'd prefer to reopen this one.

Two small things I can't do from outside the repo: the API wouldn't let me apply the
bug or llm-generated labels to #7306 (the template's default label doesn't attach
when an issue is created via the API), so those need a maintainer.

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Mind checing the conflixtS?
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Thanks for this — the OxylabsBaseTool extraction and per-tool configs look right.

Two changes before we merge:

  1. ToolFailure on empty results. The current message points the agent at the oxylabs.internal.api logger. That is a detour, not a diagnosis — the agent cannot loop on “go read another log.” Please put a concise what-went-wrong on the ToolFailure itself (e.g. 401 Unauthorized, timeout). The SDK logs the cause and returns [], so surface that on message (and code / retryable when it is a status or timeout).

  2. Version bump in a stacked PR. Please take oxylabs==2.0.0oxylabs>=2.0.0,<4 (and the lockfile change) out of this PR and open a stacked PR on top for the dependency bump. Keep the failure-handling / base-tool work here.

The oxylabs SDK logs HTTP errors and returns an empty response rather than
raising, so the unchecked `response.results[0]` in every Oxylabs tool turned a
rejected request into `IndexError: list index out of range`. Invalid credentials
-- the most likely first-run mistake -- gave no indication of the cause. A
result carrying a non-2xx `status_code` had the same problem one level down: the
job ran, the page did not come back, and the tool returned its empty content as
though the scrape had succeeded, handing the agent "[]".

Both are now reported as a `ToolFailure` naming what went wrong, so the agent
gets something it can act on and the framework records the call as failed:

    401 Unauthorized
    400 Bad Request - Parameter `parsing_instructions` can be used just with
    `parse` parameter set to `true`.

Because the SDK keeps the cause only in its own log, the failing call is run
with a handler attached to the `oxylabs` logger and the status, the API's
explanation and timeouts are read back off it. `code` and `retryable` are set
from the status, so 429 and 5xx are marked worth retrying. Nothing about the
caller's logging configuration is changed; an application that has silenced the
SDK still gets the generic failure.

Content that is neither a string nor a dict is also serialized properly:
`parsing_instructions` commonly yields a list, and the previous `str()`
fallback produced a Python repr with single quotes instead of JSON.

The client construction and response handling these four tools duplicated
verbatim now live in a shared `OxylabsBaseTool`, following the existing
`SerpApiBaseTool` pattern, so the handling above exists in one place. The
generated tool specs change only by the new `locale` field, confirming the
tools' public surface is otherwise untouched.

Also add the `locale` option to the Google Search config, which the docs
already documented but the config model silently dropped, and correct two
copy-paste errors in the docs across all four locales.

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Both done, thanks — that first point was the right call.

1. ToolFailure now names the cause. You were right that pointing at a logger is a
detour. The awkward part is that the SDK keeps the cause only in its log: it catches
the error, calls logger.error(...) and returns an empty response, so nothing about it
reaches the object we get back. So the scrape now runs with a handler attached to the
oxylabs logger, and the status, the API's own explanation and timeouts are read back
off it. Real output, against the live API:

invalid credentials  -> code=401  retryable=False
   Oxylabs Web Scraper API rejected the request: 401 Unauthorized

config the source rejects -> code=400  retryable=False
   Oxylabs Web Scraper API rejected the request: 400 Bad Request - Parameter
   `parsing_instructions` can be used just with `parse` parameter set to `true`.

timeout -> code=timeout  retryable=True
502     -> code=502      retryable=True

retryable is set for 429 and 5xx. Nothing about the caller's logging configuration is
modified — no levels changed, no handlers removed — so an application that has silenced
the SDK simply falls back to the generic failure rather than getting surprise output.

2. Version bump split out into #7330, stacked on this branch. pyproject.toml and
uv.lock are gone from this PR; the failure-handling and base-tool work stays here.
(A fork PR can't target another fork branch, so #7330 is opened against main and
currently also shows this commit; its diff reduces to the two-line dependency change
once this merges.)

Also in this push:

  • Rebased onto current main — it was 70 commits behind and had become
    mergeable_state: dirty. Now mergeable.
  • Picked up the valid CodeRabbit points: validate the config field before building
    the client rather than after, PackageNotFoundError fallback for the crewai
    version lookup, OSError alongside CalledProcessError for a missing uv, and
    getattr for content so it matches how status_code is read.
  • Tests are up to 63, covering each diagnosis path (401 / API explanation / timeout /
    502), locale being forwarded to google.scrape_search, the 500 retryable
    boundary, and a result with no content.

ruff, ruff format, mypy and the full lib/crewai-tools/ suite (513 tests) pass,
and all four tools were re-verified against the live API. tool.specs.json still
changes only by the new locale field.

I skipped one CodeRabbit suggestion — passing "oxylabs>=2.0.0,<4" to the interactive
uv add fallback. All 26 tools using that pattern pass a bare package name, and
duplicating the constraint there would mean two places to update. Happy to add it if
you'd rather.

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- Line 42: Serialize SDK error capture around the handler attachment and
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Mind checking the code-rabbit review comments? @oxy-giedrius

The error capture attached a fresh handler to the shared `oxylabs` logger for
each scrape, so two scrapes in flight at once each saw both errors. `_diagnose`
reads the first HTTP status it finds, so a timeout could be reported as the
other request's 400 -- `retryable=False` on a failure that was worth retrying.

One handler now serves every scrape and routes each record to the capture of
the call that caused it via a `ContextVar`, which isolates threads and asyncio
tasks alike. Serializing the captures would have fixed the cross-talk too, but
at the cost of running every scrape one at a time. The handler stays attached
once installed: it is inert outside a capture, and detaching it would race with
concurrent scrapes.

The regression test forces the interleaving -- one capture is held open while
the other call logs -- and fails against the previous implementation.

Also drive `config` through the public constructor in the tests instead of
assigning `__dict__["config"]`, so they would catch `__init__` dropping a
supplied config.

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Both review asks are in. Empty-results ToolFailure now names the cause (401 Unauthorized, timeout, API detail) instead of pointing at the SDK logger, and the oxylabs pin is out of this PR.

LGTM.

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[BUG] Oxylabs tools raise IndexError on any failed request and return failed scrapes as successes

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