Add BuyWhere as a community / commerce integration for CrewAI

Summary

We maintain an MCP-native commerce API (the BuyWhere MCP server) that exposes 7 production tools covering product search, price comparison, and deal discovery across 11M+ SKUs in Singapore, Southeast Asia, and the US. We are requesting that BuyWhere be listed in the CrewAI community / tools index as a supported commerce / shopping integration, and that the price-comparison example be considered for the CrewAI examples collection.

This is a listing + worked-example request, not a request to merge code into crewAIInc/crewAI. We are happy to maintain any new integration package ourselves.

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What is BuyWhere?

BuyWhere is a unified commerce search API + MCP server for AI agents. Coverage: 11M+ products across Singapore, SE Asia, and the US (Shopee, Lazada, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, FairPrice, Cold Storage, Harvey Norman, etc.).

Live endpoints (already in production):

• MCP server: https://api.buywhere.ai/mcp (7 tools: search_products, find_best_price, get_product, get_deals, find_deals, browse_categories, get_category_products)
• REST API: https://api.buywhere.ai/v1/...
• Docs: https://docs.buywhere.ai
• Dashboard: https://buywhere.ai
• MCP server source: https://github.com/BuyWhere/buywhere-mcp
• Python SDK: https://pypi.org/project/buywhere/ (with [langchain] extra for the LangChain BuyWhereTool class)
• LangChain integration (already shipped): https://github.com/BuyWhere/buywhere-langchain

Auth: API key, free evaluation tier, no credit card required for the first 10k requests/month.
Latency: p50 < 200 ms, p95 < 500 ms on search_products.

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What's missing for CrewAI specifically

We have a LangChain integration (BuyWhere/buywhere-langchain) and an MCP server, but no buywhere-crewai package yet. We are evaluating whether to ship one, and would like to gauge whether the CrewAI team would accept a community PR adding it to the tools / integrations index — or, if not, point us to the right listing path.

If the answer is "yes, ship a buywhere-crewai package and we'll list it", the plan is:

• MIT-licensed buywhere-crewai on PyPI exposing all 7 MCP tools as BaseTool subclasses.
• Worked example: a 2-agent "researcher → analyst" crew that goes from a natural-language shopping question to a ranked shortlist with merchant links.
• 24h-response support channel at partners@buywhere.ai for triage.

If the answer is "no listing path, but a community PR for crewAIInc/crewAI-examples would be welcome", we are happy to file that PR instead.

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Proposed buywhere-crewai shape (preview)

pip install buywhere-crewai

from buywhere_crewai import (
    SearchProductsTool,
    ComparePricesTool,
    GetDealsTool,
    FindDealsTool,
    GetProductTool,
    BrowseCategoriesTool,
    GetCategoryProductsTool,
)
# Plug into any existing crew via `tools=[...]`.

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Why BuyWhere + CrewAI is a strong fit

1. Real-time commerce data, not a wrapper. BuyWhere aggregates live listings and prices across 11M+ SKUs in SEA + US. Tools are useful out of the box for any shopping-oriented crew.
2. MCP-backed. BuyWhere is one of the few live commerce MCP servers today. CrewAI users building MCP-native agents can consume the same tools without re-implementing the MCP transport.
3. Maintained partner. The team commits to a 1-week security SLA and a 2-week feature SLA for the first 12 months.

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Specific asks (in priority order)

1. Confirmation that a community buywhere-crewai listing would be accepted in the CrewAI tools / integrations index. If yes, we will ship within ~2 weeks.
2. Optional: a worked example in crewAIInc/crewAI-examples modeled on the price-comparison crew pattern.
3. No core-code change requested. We are not asking for anything inside crewAIInc/crewAI itself; this is purely a listing + example pointer.

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Contact

• Email: partners@buywhere.ai
• BuyWhere: https://buywhere.ai
• Docs: https://docs.buywhere.ai
• MCP endpoint: https://api.buywhere.ai/mcp
• MCP source: https://github.com/BuyWhere/buywhere-mcp
• Existing LangChain integration: https://github.com/BuyWhere/buywhere-langchain

Happy to adjust the listing copy, ship a PR if you have a CONTRIBUTING path, or open a separate Docs issue. Thanks for considering — we think BuyWhere + CrewAI unlocks a category of agents that today have to hand-roll commerce integration.

Review the linked BuyWhere MCP source, Python SDK, LangChain integration, and the crewAIInc/crewAI-examples repository, especially its price-comparison crew pattern. This issue needs a maintainer decision on the accepted listing path before implementation can begin. Done means documenting the path and, if accepted, submitting the community listing or worked-example PR.