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# Google Search Wrapper

This page covers how to use the Google Search API within LangChain. It is broken into two parts: installation and setup, and then references to the specific Google Search wrapper.

## Installation and Setup

- Install requirements with `pip install google-api-python-client`

- Set up a Custom Search Engine, following these instructions

- Get an API Key and Custom Search Engine ID from the previous step, and set them as environment variables `GOOGLE_API_KEY` and `GOOGLE_CSE_ID` respectively

## Wrappers

### Utility

There exists a GoogleSearchAPIWrapper utility which wraps this API. To import this utility:

    from langchain.utilities import GoogleSearchAPIWrapper

For a more detailed walkthrough of this wrapper, see this notebook.

### Tool

You can also easily load this wrapper as a Tool (to use with an Agent). You can do this with:

    from langchain.agents import load_tools
    tools = load_tools(["google-search"])

For more information on this, see this page