Google Search
Google Search is the world's most widely used web search engine, making it easy to find information, discover new content, and answer questions in real time.
With the Google Search integration in AACFlow.io, you can:
- Search the web: Perform queries using Google's Custom Search API and retrieve structured search results with titles, snippets, and URLs
In AACFlow.io, the Google Search integration allows your agents to search the web and retrieve live information as part of automated workflows. This enables use cases such as automated research, fact-checking, knowledge synthesis, and dynamic content discovery.
Usage Instructions
Integrate Google Search into the workflow. Can search the web.
Actions
google_search
Search the web with the Custom Search API
Input
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | Yes | The search query to execute |
searchEngineId | string | Yes | Custom Search Engine ID |
num | string | No | Number of results to return (1-10, default 10) |
start | number | No | Index of the first result (1-based, for pagination; start + num must be <= 100) |
dateRestrict | string | No | Restrict results by recency: d[n] days, w[n] weeks, m[n] months, y[n] years |
fileType | string | No | Restrict to a file extension (e.g., pdf, doc) |
safe | string | No | SafeSearch level: "active" or "off" (default off) |
searchType | string | No | Set to "image" to perform an image search |
siteSearch | string | No | A site to include or exclude from results |
siteSearchFilter | string | No | Whether to include ("i") or exclude ("e") the siteSearch site |
lr | string | No | Restrict to a language, e.g. "lang_en" |
gl | string | No | Two-letter country code to boost geographically relevant results |
sort | string | No | Sort expression, e.g. "date" |
apiKey | string | Yes | Google API key |
Output
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
items | array | Array of search results from Google |
↳ title | string | Title of the search result |
↳ htmlTitle | string | Title of the search result with HTML markup |
↳ link | string | URL of the search result |
↳ displayLink | string | Display URL (abbreviated form) |
↳ snippet | string | Snippet or description of the search result |
↳ htmlSnippet | string | Snippet of the search result with HTML markup |
↳ formattedUrl | string | Display URL shown beneath the result |
↳ mime | string | MIME type of the result |
↳ fileFormat | string | File format of the result |
↳ cacheId | string | ID of Google's cached version |
↳ pagemap | object | PageMap information for the result (structured data) |
↳ image | object | Image metadata (present when searchType is image) |
↳ contextLink | string | URL of the page hosting the image |
↳ height | number | Image height in pixels |
↳ width | number | Image width in pixels |
↳ byteSize | number | Image file size in bytes |
↳ thumbnailLink | string | Thumbnail image URL |
↳ thumbnailHeight | number | Thumbnail height in pixels |
↳ thumbnailWidth | number | Thumbnail width in pixels |
searchInformation | object | Information about the search query and results |
↳ totalResults | string | Total number of search results available |
↳ searchTime | number | Time taken to perform the search in seconds |
↳ formattedSearchTime | string | Formatted search time for display |
↳ formattedTotalResults | string | Formatted total results count for display |
nextPageStartIndex | number | Start index for the next page of results (null if no further results) |