What is smolagents?
Hugging Face's lightweight framework for building AI agents. Minimal, code-first approach to agent development.
Searching LinkedIn with smolagents
This integration lets your smolagents agent search LinkedIn in real time via the Scavio API. The agent gets back structured JSON with job listings, company names, locations, posted dates -- ready for reasoning and decision-making.
Setup
Bash
pip install smolagents requestsCode Example
Here is a complete smolagents agent that searches LinkedIn using Scavio:
Python
from smolagents import tool, CodeAgent, HfApiModel
import json
import os
import requests
# There is no LinkedIn people or post search: LinkedIn retired it upstream. This finds LinkedIn pages through Google. For structured data call POST /api/v1/linkedin/person, /company or /post with a LinkedIn URL, or /api/v1/linkedin/search/jobs for keyword job search.
@tool
def scavio_search(query: str) -> str:
"""Query LinkedIn through the Scavio API (POST /api/v2/google).
Args:
query: What to look for.
"""
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v2/google",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SCAVIO_API_KEY"],
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"query": query},
timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
return json.dumps(response.json())
agent = CodeAgent(tools=[scavio_search], model=HfApiModel())
result = agent.run("site:linkedin.com/in AI engineer San Francisco")
print(result)Full Working Example
A production-ready example with error handling:
Python
from smolagents import tool, CodeAgent, HfApiModel
import json
import os
import requests
# There is no LinkedIn people or post search: LinkedIn retired it upstream. This finds LinkedIn pages through Google. For structured data call POST /api/v1/linkedin/person, /company or /post with a LinkedIn URL, or /api/v1/linkedin/search/jobs for keyword job search.
@tool
def scavio_search(query: str) -> str:
"""Query LinkedIn through the Scavio API (POST /api/v2/google).
Args:
query: What to look for.
"""
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v2/google",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SCAVIO_API_KEY"],
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"query": query},
timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
return json.dumps(response.json())
agent = CodeAgent(tools=[scavio_search], model=HfApiModel())
result = agent.run("site:linkedin.com/in AI engineer San Francisco")
print(result)Pricing
Scavio offers a free tier with 50 credits on signup (1 credit per search). No credit card required. This is enough to build and test your smolagents integration. Paid plans start at $30/month for higher volumes.