Search Tool

Usage

Portia offers both open source tools as well as a cloud-hosted library of tools to save you development time. You can dig into the specs of those tools in our open source repo (SDK repo ↗).

You can import our open source tools into your project using from portia.open_source_tools.registry import open_source_tool_registry and load them into an InMemoryToolRegistry object. You can also combine their use with cloud or custom tools as explained in the docs (Add custom tools ↗).

Tool details

Tool ID: search_tool

Tool description: Searches the internet (using Tavily) to find answers to the search query provided and returns those answers, including images, links and a natural language answer. The search tool has access to general information but can not return specific information on users or information not available on the internet

Usage notes:

This tool uses the Tavily API. You can sign up to obtain a Tavily API key (↗) and set it in the environment variable TAVILY_API_KEY.

Args schema:

{
  "description": "Input for SearchTool.",
  "properties": {
    "search_query": {
      "description": "The query to search for. For example, 'what is the capital of France?' or 'who won the US election in 2020?'",
      "title": "Search Query",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "search_query"
  ],
  "title": "SearchToolSchema",
  "type": "object"
}

Output schema:

('str', 'str: output of the search results')