Tool Use

Combine web search and Newspaper4k article extraction in a Groq research agent.

tool_use.py
"""Please install dependencies using:
uv pip install openai ddgs newspaper4k lxml_html_clean agno
"""

import asyncio

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.groq import Groq
from agno.tools.newspaper4k import Newspaper4kTools
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

agent = Agent(
    model=Groq(id="openai/gpt-oss-120b"),
    tools=[WebSearchTools(), Newspaper4kTools()],
    description="You are a senior NYT researcher writing an article on a topic.",
    instructions=[
        "For a given topic, search for the top 5 links.",
        "Then read each URL and extract the article text, if a URL isn't available, ignore it.",
        "Analyse and prepare an NYT worthy article based on the information.",
    ],
    markdown=True,
    add_datetime_to_context=True,
)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # --- Sync + Streaming ---
    agent.print_response("Simulation theory", stream=True)

    # --- Async + Streaming ---
    asyncio.run(agent.aprint_response("Simulation theory", stream=True))

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno ddgs groq lxml-html-clean newspaper4k

Export your Groq API key

export GROQ_API_KEY="your_groq_api_key_here"

Run the example

Save the code above as tool_use.py, then run:

python tool_use.py

Full source: cookbook/90_models/groq/tool_use.py