Web Context Provider with Parallel

ParallelBackend speaks directly to Parallel’s web API via the parallel-web SDK (>= 1.0). Two tools: web_search(objective) returns URL + excerpt pairs for a natural-language objective; web_extract(url) fetches full-page content.

web_parallel.py

"""
Web Context Provider with Parallel
==================================

`ParallelBackend` speaks directly to Parallel's web API via the
`parallel-web` SDK (>= 1.0). Two tools: `web_search(objective)` returns
URL + excerpt pairs for a natural-language objective; `web_extract(url)`
fetches full-page content.

Pick this over Exa when you want Parallel's search ranking, excerpt
shape, or pricing.

Requires:
    OPENAI_API_KEY
    PARALLEL_API_KEY   (https://platform.parallel.ai/)
    pip install parallel-web
"""

from __future__ import annotations

import asyncio

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.context.web import ParallelBackend, WebContextProvider
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create the provider
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
backend = ParallelBackend()  # reads PARALLEL_API_KEY from env
web = WebContextProvider(backend=backend, model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.4-mini"))

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create the Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.4"),
    tools=web.get_tools(),
    instructions=web.instructions() + "\nAlways cite URLs inline.",
    markdown=True,
)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run the Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(f"\nweb.status() = {web.status()}\n")
    prompt = "What is the latest stable release of CPython? Cite the source."
    print(f"> {prompt}\n")
    asyncio.run(agent.aprint_response(prompt))

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

uv venv --python 3.12
.venv\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno openai parallel-web

Export your API keys

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
export PARALLEL_API_KEY="your_parallel_api_key_here"

$Env:OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
$Env:PARALLEL_API_KEY="your_parallel_api_key_here"

Run the example

Save the code above as web_parallel.py, then run:

python web_parallel.py

Full source: cookbook/12_context/03_web_parallel.py

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