How to Use TinyFish in Claude: 10 Student Use Cases
Claude is great at thinking, but on its own it can't check today's prices, read a booking calendar or tell you when a new job goes up. Connect TinyFish and it can: Claude gets live web powers to search, read any page, complete tasks on real websites and watch pages for changes.
Students in the TinyFish Students Program have already built dozens of web agents for everyday student problems. Here are 10 of the most useful ones, each turned into a prompt you can paste into Claude today.
TL;DR
- Connect TinyFish to Claude from the Claude directory in one tap. No code and no API keys.
- Then just ask. Claude uses TinyFish to search the web, read pages, act on websites and set up monitors.
- Students get $35 in their TinyFish wallet to use it. Here's how to claim it.
- The use cases below are real student builds: saving money, finding rooms, tracking jobs and planning nights out.
How to connect TinyFish to Claude
- Open the TinyFish connector in the Claude directory.
- Click Connect, then Allow to sign in with your TinyFish account.
- Start a new chat and ask Claude to use TinyFish.
Here's the whole setup in 10 seconds:
That's it. If you don't have a TinyFish account yet, students can sign up with a school email and get $35 in their wallet. Full setup details are in the TinyFish docs.
What can Claude do with TinyFish?
- Search: find current results from the live web, not Claude's memory.
- Fetch: read any page you point it at and pull out what matters.
- Agent: complete multi-step tasks on websites, like filtering listings or checking availability.
- Monitor: watch a page and tell you when something changes.
See it in action
Here Claude uses TinyFish to open Luma, find every event the user is registered for, and turn them into a Google Sheet with the name, date, time and location of each. It even flags a double-booking.
Use TinyFish to check which Luma events I'm signed up for, then create a "Luma Events" sheet in my Google Drive with the name, date, time, and location of each.
10 student use cases for TinyFish in Claude
Save money
1. Check if a "sale" is actually a sale
Fake Sale Detector checks a product's price history on the Wayback Machine to prove whether a "was £200" discount is real.
Use TinyFish to check whether this product's sale is genuine: [product link]. Look up its past prices on the Wayback Machine and tell me if the "original price" was ever real.
2. Find the cheapest supermarket for your weekly shop
The Meal Planner build compares prices across UK supermarkets.
Use TinyFish to compare current prices for pasta, chicken breast, rice, eggs and milk at Tesco, Sainsbury's and Aldi, and tell me where my weekly shop is cheapest.
3. Hunt second-hand deals
The Second-hand Searcher pulls real listings from Gumtree.
Use TinyFish to search Gumtree for a second-hand desk chair under £40 near London, and list the five best options with prices and links.
4. Track a price until it drops
Tech Price Watch and the Fast Fashion Sale Tracker watch retailer pages for price drops.
Use TinyFish to set up a monitor on this product page: [product link]. Tell me when the price drops below £[price].
Find rooms and places
5. Find a free study room on campus
Room Rescue reads a university's live room booking calendars.
Use TinyFish to check [your university's room booking page] and tell me which study rooms are free tomorrow between 2pm and 5pm.
6. Watch for new rental listings
TinyRoomFinder checks rental sites and flags new rooms.
Use TinyFish to find rooms to rent near [area] under £[budget] a month on SpareRoom and Rightmove, and set up a monitor so I hear about new listings.
Careers and funding
7. Track new internships and jobs
The UK ML Job Tracker runs 13 live monitors on company careers pages.
Use TinyFish to monitor the careers pages of [company 1], [company 2] and [company 3], and tell me when a new machine learning internship is posted.
8. Find scholarships and funding
The MSc Funding Finder searches for funding that matches a student's course.
Use TinyFish to find scholarships and funding for an MSc in [subject] in the UK for 2027, with eligibility, amounts and deadlines, and links to the official pages.
Campus life and going out
9. Plan a night out that actually works
Pub Crawl Planner plans a walking route and checks each pub's own website to prove it has what you want.
Use TinyFish to plan a walking pub crawl of 4 pubs near [area] that show live football tonight, and check each pub's website to confirm.
10. See what's on at your students' union
SocietyBot reads a live students' union site to find society events.
Use TinyFish to check [your students' union events page] and list the society events this week that are free and about tech or AI.
Tips for better results in Claude
- Say "use TinyFish" so Claude knows to go to the live web instead of answering from memory.
- Give the exact site when you know it, like a booking page or careers page. It's faster and more accurate.
- Ask for links and sources so you can check what Claude found.
- Use monitors for anything that changes: prices, job posts, listings and availability.
Learn more about TinyFish in Claude
- Add TinyFish to Claude: TinyFish in the Claude directory
- Set-up guide: TinyFish plugin docs for Claude
- Using Claude Code, Cursor or Codex? Connect the TinyFish MCP server, or give your coding agent the TinyFish guide for coding agents.
- Prefer the terminal? Try the TinyFish CLI.
- Ready-made examples: the TinyFish Cookbook on GitHub.
- All integrations: tinyfish.ai/integrations
- Further reading: Best MCP servers for Claude Code
Turn your prompt into a bounty
Every use case above started as a quick student idea. If yours works, build it properly and submit it on TinyBounties. Approved builds earn a gift card and are published under your name.
- Using ChatGPT or Grok instead? See the TinyFish plugin docs.
Learn about the TinyFish Students Program
Every student with a school email gets $35 in their TinyFish wallet, access to paid bounties, and a path to becoming a Campus Lead.
- Join: tinyfish.ai/students
- Claim your $35, step by step: How to Get $35 in Free AI Agent Credits as a Student
- How the program works: TinyFish Student Program: Tiers, Rewards and How to Join
- The story behind it: Introducing the TinyFish Students and Ambassadors Programs
- More free student offers: Free AI Credits for Students in 2026
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