GoogleSearch enables an Agent to perform web crawling and scraping tasks.

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Prerequisites

The following examples requires the googlesearch and pycountry libraries.

pip install -U googlesearch-python pycountry

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Example

The following agent will search Google for the latest news about “Mistral AI”:

cookbook/tools/googlesearch_tools.py
from phi.agent import Agent
from phi.tools.googlesearch import GoogleSearch

agent = Agent(
    tools=[GoogleSearch()],
    description="You are a news agent that helps users find the latest news.",
    instructions=[
        "Given a topic by the user, respond with 4 latest news items about that topic.",
        "Search for 10 news items and select the top 4 unique items.",
        "Search in English and in French.",
    ],
    show_tool_calls=True,
    debug_mode=True,
)
agent.print_response("Mistral AI", markdown=True)

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Toolkit Params

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
fixed_max_resultsintNoneOptional fixed maximum number of results to return.
fixed_languagestrNoneOptional fixed language for the requests.
headersAnyNoneOptional headers to include in the requests.
proxystrNoneOptional proxy to be used for the requests.
timeoutintNoneOptional timeout for the requests, in seconds.

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Toolkit Functions

FunctionDescription
google_searchSearches Google for a specified query. Parameters include query for the search term, max_results for the maximum number of results (default is 5), and language for the language of the search results (default is “en”). Returns the search results as a JSON formatted string.

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