What is smolagents?
Hugging Face's lightweight framework for building AI agents. Minimal, code-first approach to agent development.
Searching YouTube Playlists with smolagents
This integration lets your smolagents agent search YouTube Playlists in real time via the Scavio API. The agent gets back structured JSON with playlist entries from search, video results, channel results, shorts results -- ready for reasoning and decision-making.
Setup
Bash
pip install smolagents requestsCode Example
Here is a complete smolagents agent that searches YouTube Playlists using Scavio:
Python
from smolagents import tool, CodeAgent, HfApiModel
import json
import os
import requests
# Playlist data is not available: POST /api/v1/youtube/search accepts type: playlist but the provider returns an empty playlists array, so there is no playlist title, video count, creator or visibility to read, and no removal tracking. This sample returns the videos for the query; type: channel does work if you want creators instead.
@tool
def scavio_search(query: str) -> str:
"""Query YouTube Playlists through the Scavio API (POST /api/v1/youtube/search).
Args:
query: What to look for.
"""
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/youtube/search",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SCAVIO_API_KEY"],
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"search": query},
timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
return json.dumps(response.json())
agent = CodeAgent(tools=[scavio_search], model=HfApiModel())
result = agent.run("best rag tutorials playlist")
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
# Playlist data is not available: POST /api/v1/youtube/search accepts type: playlist but the provider returns an empty playlists array, so there is no playlist title, video count, creator or visibility to read, and no removal tracking. This sample returns the videos for the query; type: channel does work if you want creators instead.
@tool
def scavio_search(query: str) -> str:
"""Query YouTube Playlists through the Scavio API (POST /api/v1/youtube/search).
Args:
query: What to look for.
"""
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/youtube/search",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SCAVIO_API_KEY"],
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"search": query},
timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
return json.dumps(response.json())
agent = CodeAgent(tools=[scavio_search], model=HfApiModel())
result = agent.run("best rag tutorials playlist")
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.