Custom API - Agno

CustomApiTools enable an Agent to make HTTP requests to any external API with customizable authentication and parameters.

Prerequisites

The following example requires the requests library.

pip install requests

Example

The following agent will use CustomApiTools to make API calls to the Dog CEO API.

cookbook/tools/custom_api_tools.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.api import CustomApiTools

agent = Agent(
    tools=[CustomApiTools(base_url="https://dog.ceo/api")],
    markdown=True,
)

agent.print_response(
    'Make API calls to the following two different endpoints: /breeds/image/random and /breeds/list/all to get a random dog image and list of dog breeds respectively. Use GET method for both calls.'
)

Toolkit Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`base_url`	`str`	`None`	Base URL for API calls
`username`	`str`	`None`	Username for basic authentication
`password`	`str`	`None`	Password for basic authentication
`api_key`	`str`	`None`	API key for bearer token authentication
`headers`	`Dict[str, str]`	`{}`	Default headers to include in requests
`verify_ssl`	`bool`	`True`	Whether to verify SSL certificates
`timeout`	`int`	`30`	Request timeout in seconds
`make_request`	`bool`	`True`	Whether to register the make_request function

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
`make_request`	Makes an HTTP request to the API. Takes method (GET, POST, etc.), endpoint, and optional params, data, headers, and json_data parameters.

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