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Overview

This PR adds optional You.com search integration to VoltAgent as a complete example that demonstrates how to add web search capabilities to AI agents.

What's Added

  • examples/with-youcom-search/ - Complete example integration
  • Two comprehensive search tools:
    • youSearchTool - Web search with filters and pagination
    • youContentssTool - Content extraction from specific URLs
  • Full TypeScript integration using VoltAgent's createTool API
  • Optional authentication via YDC_API_KEY environment variable
  • Comprehensive documentation with setup instructions and usage examples

Key Features

  • Optional integration: Uses environment variable configuration, no breaking changes
  • Follows VoltAgent patterns: Uses existing createTool API and follows established conventions
  • Robust error handling: Graceful fallbacks and detailed error messages
  • Production ready: Includes rate limiting awareness, proper headers, and comprehensive logging
  • Well documented: Complete README with setup, usage examples, and API reference

Technical Implementation

  • Integrates with You.com's /search and /contents endpoints
  • Supports advanced search parameters (country, safe search, pagination)
  • Includes proper TypeScript types and Zod validation
  • Uses standard HTTP client (no additional dependencies)
  • Follows VoltAgent's existing tool architecture patterns

Benefits for VoltAgent Users

  • Enhanced research capabilities - Access to real-time web information
  • Content extraction - Pull content from specific web pages
  • Flexible integration - Works with or without API keys
  • Educational example - Shows how to integrate external APIs with VoltAgent tools

This integration enables VoltAgent-powered applications to have comprehensive web search and content extraction capabilities, making agents more capable for research, fact-checking, and information gathering tasks.

Tracking Issue: youdotcom-oss/integration-tracking#193


Summary by cubic

Adds an authenticated You.com web search and content extraction example that requires YDC_API_KEY. This uses POST requests with X-API-Key, validates responses, supports pagination, redacts sensitive logs, and fixes the tool name typo.

  • New example at examples/with-youcom-search exposes youSearch and youContents tools calling /search and /contents with 30s timeouts and Zod-validated parsing; offset in the request body enables pagination; search params: count 1–20, offset 0–9, safeSearch default "moderate", optional country; contents expects { urls: [url] }; no synthetic “no results”.
  • No core package changes; lockfile updates add example-only deps (zod, ai). Adds .changeset/feat-youcom-search-integration.md.

Migration

  • Set YDC_API_KEY and OPENAI_API_KEY in .env.
  • Update any references from youContentssTool to youContentsTool.

Written for commit 9dfc08e. Summary will update on new commits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a VoltAgent example with You.com-powered web search and webpage content extraction.
    • Supports configurable search options, structured results, timeouts, validation, error handling, and persistent agent memory.
    • Includes an integrated AI agent and server for interactive research workflows.
  • Documentation
    • Added setup, environment configuration, usage, architecture, tool, and security guidance.
    • Added placeholders and key-source guidance for required API keys.
  • Chores
    • Added scripts and configuration for building, developing, and running the example.

- Add comprehensive You.com search tools (youSearchTool and youContentssTool)
- Integrate with VoltAgent createTool API and follow existing patterns
- Support both search and content extraction endpoints
- Optional YDC_API_KEY configuration with public API fallback
- Include complete example with setup instructions and usage documentation
- Follow VoltAgent conventions for tool naming, error handling, and TypeScript types
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Adds a VoltAgent example that connects a GPT-4o-mini agent to You.com web search and content extraction tools, with LibSQL memory, Hono serving, environment configuration, package setup, and documentation.

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You.com Search Example

Layer / File(s) Summary
Project setup
examples/with-youcom-search/package.json, examples/with-youcom-search/tsconfig.json, examples/with-youcom-search/.env.example, .changeset/feat-youcom-search-integration.md
Adds the private ES-module package, TypeScript settings, scripts, dependencies, environment placeholders, and patch changeset.
You.com tool implementations
examples/with-youcom-search/src/tools/you-search-tool.ts, examples/with-youcom-search/src/tools/index.ts
Adds validated You.com search and content extraction tools with API authentication, timeout handling, normalized results, metadata, and structured error responses.
Agent and server wiring
examples/with-youcom-search/src/index.ts, examples/with-youcom-search/README.md
Configures the GPT-4o-mini search agent with logging, LibSQL memory, You.com tools, Hono serving, and setup, usage, architecture, error-handling, and security documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9dfc0

This PR adds an optional, localized search integration without changing core package behavior, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant HonoServer
  participant SearchAgent
  participant GPT4oMini
  participant YouComAPI
  Client->>HonoServer: Send search request
  HonoServer->>SearchAgent: Forward request
  SearchAgent->>GPT4oMini: Determine tool usage
  GPT4oMini-->>SearchAgent: Return tool invocation
  SearchAgent->>YouComAPI: Execute search or content extraction
  YouComAPI-->>SearchAgent: Return tool result
  SearchAgent-->>HonoServer: Return agent response
  HonoServer-->>Client: Return response
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Possibly related PRs

  • VoltAgent/voltagent#1289: Adds another standalone VoltAgent example that integrates an external web-research API through typed tools.
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In `@examples/with-youcom-search/README.md`:
- Line 98: Update the youSearchTool and youContentssTool import in the README
example to use the ESM-compatible .js module specifier, matching the runtime
source imports.

In `@examples/with-youcom-search/src/tools/you-search-tool.ts`:
- Around line 30-32: Remove or redact user-controlled query text and URL values
from logging in execute at
examples/with-youcom-search/src/tools/you-search-tool.ts:30-32 and :59; update
the related result/error logging at :128-130 to avoid exposing URLs or sensitive
response data. Revise examples/with-youcom-search/README.md:118-123 so its
logging claim matches the sanitized behavior.
- Around line 1-2: Replace JSON.stringify with safeStringify for the request
body in examples/with-youcom-search/src/tools/you-search-tool.ts, importing
safeStringify from `@voltagent/internal`; add `@voltagent/internal` at ^1.0.3 to
examples/with-youcom-search/package.json. Update both referenced locations in
you-search-tool.ts (lines 1-2 and 145-153) and the dependency entry in
package.json (lines 5-13).
- Around line 61-64: Update both fetch calls in YouSearchTool, at
examples/with-youcom-search/src/tools/you-search-tool.ts lines 61-64 and
149-153, to use the project-supported AbortController timeout pattern and pass
its signal. Handle aborts as a distinct timeout error while preserving existing
handling for other request failures.
- Around line 70-85: Update the You.com response handling in the search and
content extraction flows to define Zod schemas with inferred types, parse
response.json() results, and use the documented shapes: web results under
data.results.web and content as an array containing markdown or html. Replace
any item: any usage with the derived types, and reject schema mismatches rather
than returning fallback “No Results Found” or “No content extracted” values.
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- Fix API endpoint from GET to POST with correct request body
- Use X-API-Key header instead of Authorization Bearer
- Require YDC_API_KEY for API access
- Add request timeout with AbortController
- Fix response parsing to use correct You.com API schema
- Rename youContentssTool to youContentsTool (fix typo)
- Update content extraction to use urls array format
- Remove synthetic 'No Results Found' entries
- Add proper Zod schema validation for responses
- Update README to reflect API key requirement
- Fix import paths and documentation examples
- Sanitize logging to avoid exposing sensitive data
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Fixed all the issues identified in the review:

Critical API fixes:

  • Fixed endpoint from GET to POST at
  • Switched from to header
  • Made required as documented
  • Fixed request body format (, key)
  • Fixed content extraction to use array format

Response handling:

  • Added proper Zod schemas for API response validation
  • Fixed response parsing to use structure
  • Removed synthetic "No Results Found" entries that inflated counts
  • Fixed content extraction to read or

Code quality:

  • Fixed typo: →
  • Added request timeouts with
  • Added integer validation for and parameters
  • Capped at documented maximum of 9
  • Updated all imports and exports consistently

Documentation & Security:

  • Updated README with correct import paths and API key requirements
  • Sanitized logging to avoid exposing queries/URLs
  • Updated error messages to be more helpful

The integration now follows You.com's documented API exactly and handles edge cases properly.

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In `@examples/with-youcom-search/src/tools/you-search-tool.ts`:
- Around line 35-38: Update the agent instructions in the You.com search setup
to remove the claim that public or unauthenticated API access is supported,
matching the YDC_API_KEY validation in the tool. Keep the existing authenticated
usage guidance unchanged.
- Around line 42-47: Update the requestBody constructed in the search tool to
include the validated offset value alongside query, num_web_results, safesearch,
and country, so the API request uses the requested result offset.
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- Include offset parameter in You.com search API request body for proper pagination
- Update .env.example to reflect that API key is required, not optional
- Remove misleading public API mention from agent instructions
- Ensure documentation consistency about API key requirement
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Fixed the remaining issues identified in the reviews:

Pagination fix:

  • Added parameter to the You.com search API request body so pagination works correctly

Documentation consistency:

  • Updated to mark as Required instead of Optional
  • Removed misleading "public API" references from agent instructions in
  • All documentation now correctly states that an API key is mandatory

The integration now properly handles paginated requests and has consistent documentation about the API key requirement.

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Added the required changeset for this integration example. The changeset follows the project's patch versioning for the new You.com search example package.

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P3: This changeset references voltagent-example-with-youcom-search, which is private and matches the "voltagent-example-*" entry in the changesets ignore config. Changesets will never version or publish ignored/private packages, so this changeset is a no-op and won't achieve the intended patch release. Remove it, or drop it if examples are intentionally not released.</violation>
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P3: This changeset references voltagent-example-with-youcom-search, which is private and matches the "voltagent-example-*" entry in the changesets ignore config. Changesets will never version or publish ignored/private packages, so this changeset is a no-op and won't achieve the intended patch release. Remove it, or drop it if examples are intentionally not released.

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