What is smolagents?
Hugging Face's lightweight framework for building AI agents. Minimal, code-first approach to agent development.
Searching YouTube Shorts with smolagents
This integration lets your smolagents agent search YouTube Shorts in real time via the Scavio API. The agent gets back structured JSON with short video results, video ids, view counts, published time -- ready for reasoning and decision-making.
Setup
Bash
pip install smolagents requestsCode Example
Here is a complete smolagents agent that searches YouTube Shorts using Scavio:
Python
from smolagents import tool, CodeAgent, HfApiModel
import json
import os
import requests
# Shorts search takes search (not query). channel.name is often empty on Shorts rows - resolve it with POST /api/v1/youtube/video when you need it.
@tool
def scavio_search(query: str) -> str:
"""Query YouTube Shorts through the Scavio API (POST /api/v1/youtube/shorts).
Args:
query: What to look for.
"""
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/youtube/shorts",
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("ai coding agent shorts")
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
# Shorts search takes search (not query). channel.name is often empty on Shorts rows - resolve it with POST /api/v1/youtube/video when you need it.
@tool
def scavio_search(query: str) -> str:
"""Query YouTube Shorts through the Scavio API (POST /api/v1/youtube/shorts).
Args:
query: What to look for.
"""
response = requests.post(
"https://api.scavio.dev/api/v1/youtube/shorts",
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("ai coding agent shorts")
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.