feat: add strands search crawling actor tools

[daveomri]

Description

Part 2 of 3 — This PR builds on the core Apify tools introduced in feat/strands-core-apify-tools and should be reviewed after that PR is merged. A third PR (feat/strands-social-media-actor-tools) will add social media tools on top of both. A separate strands docs PR will cover documentation for all three sets of tools (core, search & crawling, and social).

This PR extends the Apify integration (src/strands_tools/apify.py) with five new search & crawling tools that wrap popular Actors from Apify Store, giving agents structured access to Google Search, Google Maps, YouTube, multi-page website crawling, and e-commerce product data.

New tools

Tool	Underlying Actor	Description
apify_google_search_scraper	apify/google-search-scraper	Search Google and return structured results (organic, ads, People Also Ask)
apify_google_places_scraper	compass/crawler-google-places	Search Google Maps for businesses and places, optionally with reviews
apify_youtube_scraper	streamers/youtube-scraper	Scrape YouTube videos, channels, or search results
apify_website_content_crawler	apify/website-content-crawler	Crawl a website and extract markdown content from multiple pages (multi-page counterpart to apify_scrape_url)
apify_ecommerce_scraper	apify/e-commerce-scraping-tool	Scrape product data from e-commerce sites (Amazon, eBay, Walmart, etc.)

All tools share the existing ApifyToolClient, error handling, and Rich console output from the core module. A shared _search_crawl_result helper keeps the implementations DRY.

Two new export lists are added:

• APIFY_SEARCH_TOOLS — the five search & crawling tools
• APIFY_ALL_TOOLS — APIFY_CORE_TOOLS + APIFY_SEARCH_TOOLS for convenience

Files changed

File	Change
src/strands_tools/apify.py	5 new @tool-decorated functions, _search_crawl_result helper, Actor ID constants, APIFY_SEARCH_TOOLS and APIFY_ALL_TOOLS exports
tests/test_apify.py	25+ new test cases covering all five tools
docs/apify_tool.md	Search & Crawling section with usage examples and parameter reference tables
README.md	Tool table entries and usage examples for search & crawling tools

PR series

#	Branch	Scope	Status
1	feat/strands-core-apify-tools	Core tools: apify_run_actor, apify_get_dataset_items, apify_run_actor_and_get_dataset, apify_run_task, apify_run_task_and_get_dataset, apify_scrape_url	Review first
2	feat/strands-search-crawling-actor-tools	Search & crawling tools (this PR)	Review after core tools merges
3	feat/strands-social-media-actor-tools	Social media tools: Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook	Review after search tools merges
—	strands docs repo	Documentation for all three tool sets	Link TBD

Related Issues

#456
#458

Documentation PR

strands-agents/docs#769

Type of Change

New Tool

Testing

• Added unit tests for all five search & crawling tools, including:

  • Success paths with correct Actor ID and input mapping for each tool
  • Google Search Scraper: multi-page calculation, optional country/language codes, omission of unset params
  • Google Places Scraper: reviews toggle (maxReviews set to 0 when disabled), optional language
  • YouTube Scraper: search query, specific URLs, both combined, error when neither provided
  • Website Content Crawler: default parameters, URL validation
  • E-commerce Scraper: product vs. listing URL type routing, invalid url_type validation, URL validation
  • Missing dependency and missing token paths for each tool
  • Actor failure propagation

• Ran hatch run prepare locally — no warnings or lint issues.

• I ran hatch run prepare

Checklist

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document
• I have added any necessary tests that prove my fix is effective or my feature works
• I have updated the documentation accordingly
• I have added an appropriate example to the documentation to outline the feature
• My changes generate no new warnings
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published

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