Google Serper Wrapper
This page covers how to use the Serper Google Search API within LangChain. Serper is a low-cost Google Search API that can be used to add answer box, knowledge graph, and organic results data from Google Search. It is broken into two parts: setup, and then references to the specific Google Serper wrapper.
Setup
- Go to serper.dev to sign up for a free account
- Get the api key and set it as an environment variable (
SERPER_API_KEY
)
Wrappers
Utility
There exists a GoogleSerperAPIWrapper utility which wraps this API. To import this utility:
from langchain.utilities import GoogleSerperAPIWrapper
You can use it as part of a Self Ask chain:
from langchain.utilities import GoogleSerperAPIWrapper
from langchain.llms.openai import OpenAI
from langchain.agents import initialize_agent, Tool
import os
os.environ["SERPER_API_KEY"] = ""
os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = ""
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0)
search = GoogleSerperAPIWrapper()
tools = [
Tool(
name="Intermediate Answer",
func=search.run
)
]
self_ask_with_search = initialize_agent(tools, llm, agent="self-ask-with-search", verbose=True)
self_ask_with_search.run("What is the hometown of the reigning men's U.S. Open champion?")
Output
Entering new AgentExecutor chain...
Yes.
Follow up: Who is the reigning men's U.S. Open champion?
Intermediate answer: Current champions Carlos Alcaraz, 2022 men's singles champion.
Follow up: Where is Carlos Alcaraz from?
Intermediate answer: El Palmar, Spain
So the final answer is: El Palmar, Spain
> Finished chain.
'El Palmar, Spain'
For a more detailed walkthrough of this wrapper, see this notebook.
Tool
You can also easily load this wrapper as a Tool (to use with an Agent). You can do this with:
from langchain.agents import load_tools
tools = load_tools(["google-serper"])
For more information on this, see this page