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# BaiduSearch

**BaiduSearch** enables an Agent to search the web for information using the Baidu search engine.

## Prerequisites

The following example requires the `baidusearch` library. To install BaiduSearch, run the following command:

```shell theme={null}
pip install -U baidusearch
```

## Example

```python cookbook/tools/baidusearch_tools.py theme={null}
from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.tools.baidusearch import BaiduSearch

agent = Agent(
    tools=[BaiduSearch()],
    description="You are a search agent that helps users find the most relevant information using Baidu.",
    instructions=[
        "Given a topic by the user, respond with the 3 most relevant search results about that topic.",
        "Search for 5 results and select the top 3 unique items.",
        "Search in both English and Chinese.",
    ],
    show_tool_calls=True,
)
agent.print_response("What are the latest advancements in AI?", markdown=True)
```

## Toolkit Params

| Parameter           | Type  | Default | Description                                                                                          |
| ------------------- | ----- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `fixed_max_results` | `int` | -       | Sets a fixed number of maximum results to return. No default is provided, must be specified if used. |
| `fixed_language`    | `str` | -       | Set the fixed language for the results.                                                              |
| `headers`           | `Any` | -       | Headers to be used in the search request.                                                            |
| `proxy`             | `str` | -       | Specifies a single proxy address as a string to be used for the HTTP requests.                       |
| `timeout`           | `int` | `10`    | Sets the timeout for HTTP requests, in seconds.                                                      |

## Toolkit Functions

| Function       | Description                                    |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| `baidu_search` | Use this function to search Baidu for a query. |

## Information

* View on [Github](https://github.com/agno-agi/phidata/blob/main/phi/tools/baidusearch.py)