Website Tools

WebsiteTools exposes a read_url function to read a website’s contents, or an add_website_to_knowledge function when a Knowledge instance is passed in.

WebsiteTools enable an Agent to read a website’s contents, or to add them to a knowledge base when one is provided.

Prerequisites

The following example requires the beautifulsoup4 library.

uv pip install -U beautifulsoup4 openai

Example

The following agent will read the contents of a website.

cookbook/91_tools/website_tools.py

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.website import WebsiteTools

agent = Agent(tools=[WebsiteTools()])
agent.print_response("Search web page: 'https://docs.agno.com/introduction'", markdown=True)

Toolkit Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
knowledge	Optional[Knowledge]	None	The knowledge base to add website contents to. When provided, add_website_to_knowledge is registered instead of read_url.

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
add_website_to_knowledge	Adds a website’s content to the knowledge base. Registered only when knowledge is provided. The website must start with https:// and be a valid website.
read_url	Reads a URL and returns the contents. Registered when no knowledge is provided.

Developer Resources

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