Giphy

GiphyTools enables an Agent to search for GIFs on GIPHY.

Prerequisites

1export GIPHY_API_KEY=***

Example

The following agent will search GIPHY for a GIF appropriate for a birthday message.

1from kern.agent import Agent
2from kern.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
3from kern.tools.giphy import GiphyTools
4
5gif_agent = Agent(
6    name="Gif Generator Agent",
7    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
8    tools=[GiphyTools()],
9    description="You are an AI agent that can generate gifs using Giphy.",
10)
11
12gif_agent.print_response("I want a gif to send to a friend for their birthday.")

Toolkit Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`api_key`	`str`	`None`	If you want to manually supply the GIPHY API key.
`limit`	`int`	`1`	The number of GIFs to return in a search.
`enable_search_gifs`	`bool`	`True`	Enable the search_gifs functionality.
`all`	`bool`	`False`	Enable all functionality.

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
`search_gifs`	Searches GIPHY for a GIF based on the query string.

Developer Resources

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