Newspaper

NewspaperTools enable an Agent to read news articles using the Newspaper4k library.

Prerequisites

The following example requires the newspaper3k library.

1uv pip install -U newspaper3k

Example

The following agent will summarize the wikipedia article on language models.

1from kern.agent import Agent
2from kern.tools.newspaper import NewspaperTools
3
4agent = Agent(tools=[NewspaperTools()])
5agent.print_response("Please summarize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model")

Toolkit Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`enable_get_article_text`	`bool`	`True`	Enables the functionality to retrieve the text of an article.

Toolkit Functions

Function	Description
`get_article_text`	Retrieves the text of an article from a specified URL. Parameters include `url` for the URL of the article. Returns the text of the article or an error message if the retrieval fails.

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