> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Google Search

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

## Prerequisites

The following examples requires the `googlesearch` and `pycountry` libraries.

```shell theme={null}
pip install -U googlesearch-python pycountry
```

## Example

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

```python cookbook/tools/googlesearch_tools.py theme={null}
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)
```

## Toolkit Params

| Parameter           | Type  | Default | Description                                         |
| ------------------- | ----- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `fixed_max_results` | `int` | `None`  | Optional fixed maximum number of results to return. |
| `fixed_language`    | `str` | `None`  | Optional fixed language for the requests.           |
| `headers`           | `Any` | `None`  | Optional headers to include in the requests.        |
| `proxy`             | `str` | `None`  | Optional proxy to be used for the requests.         |
| `timeout`           | `int` | `None`  | Optional timeout for the requests, in seconds.      |

## Toolkit Functions

| Function        | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `google_search` | Searches 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. |

## Information

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