## SpecStory

## Transforming Python Script into CLI Tool (25/02/2025, 02:58:00)

_**User**_

python src/twat_search/web/example.py

2025-02-25 02:57:13,472 - __main__ - INFO - Loaded environment variables from .env file
2025-02-25 02:57:13,815 - __main__ - INFO - Starting web search examples
2025-02-25 02:57:13,816 - __main__ - INFO - API keys available: {'BRAVE_API_KEY': True, 'SERPAPI_API_KEY': True, 'TAVILY_API_KEY': True, 'PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY': True, 'YOUCOM_API_KEY': True}
2025-02-25 02:57:13,816 - twat_search.web.api - ERROR - Error initializing engine 'perplexity': Engine 'perplexity': Perplexity API key is required. Set it in config or the PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY env var.
2025-02-25 02:57:14,264 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://serpapi.com/search?q=latest+news+about+AI&api_key=AIzaSyA2eX12EtH1jTK-uyJKsbDr3yzGhUvVzS8&num=10 "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized"
2025-02-25 02:57:14,620 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://api.ydc-index.io/search?query=latest+news+about+AI&limit=10 "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2025-02-25 02:57:14,982 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=latest+news+about+AI&count=10 "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2025-02-25 02:57:16,951 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.tavily.com/search "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2025-02-25 02:57:16,952 - twat_search.web.api - ERROR - Search with engine 'google' failed: Engine 'google': HTTP Status error: 401 - {
  "error": "Invalid API key. Your API key should be here: https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key"
}
2025-02-25 02:57:17,221 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://serpapi.com/search?q=population+of+Tokyo&api_key=AIzaSyA2eX12EtH1jTK-uyJKsbDr3yzGhUvVzS8&num=10 "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized"
2025-02-25 02:57:17,860 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=population+of+Tokyo&count=10 "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2025-02-25 02:57:17,862 - twat_search.web.api - ERROR - Search with engine 'google' failed: Engine 'google': HTTP Status error: 401 - {
  "error": "Invalid API key. Your API key should be here: https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key"
}
2025-02-25 02:57:17,862 - twat_search.web.api - ERROR - Error initializing engine 'tavily': TavilySearchEngine.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'count'
2025-02-25 02:57:17,862 - twat_search.web.api - ERROR - Error initializing engine 'perplexity': PerplexitySearchEngine.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'count'
2025-02-25 02:57:18,175 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://serpapi.com/search?q=best+Python+libraries+for+data+science&api_key=AIzaSyA2eX12EtH1jTK-uyJKsbDr3yzGhUvVzS8&num=3 "HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized"
2025-02-25 02:57:18,459 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=best+Python+libraries+for+data+science&count=5 "HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests"
2025-02-25 02:57:18,509 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://api.ydc-index.io/search?query=best+Python+libraries+for+data+science&limit=10 "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2025-02-25 02:57:18,509 - twat_search.web.api - ERROR - Search with engine 'brave' failed: Engine 'brave': HTTP Status error: 429 - {"type":"ErrorResponse","error":{"id":"879539e2-9e7f-4c1a-a984-667e70c1eb18","status":429,"code":"RATE_LIMITED","detail":"Request rate limit exceeded for plan.","meta":{"plan":"Free","rate_limit":1,"rate_current":1,"quota_limit":2000,"quota_current":12,"component":"rate_limiter"}},"time":1740448638}
2025-02-25 02:57:18,510 - twat_search.web.api - ERROR - Search with engine 'google' failed: Engine 'google': HTTP Status error: 401 - {
  "error": "Invalid API key. Your API key should be here: https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key"
}
2025-02-25 02:57:19,501 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: GET https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search?q=machine+learning+tutorials&count=5 "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2025-02-25 02:57:20,666 - httpx - INFO - HTTP Request: POST https://api.tavily.com/search "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
2025-02-25 02:57:20,667 - __main__ - INFO - All examples completed



This is bull@example.py 

Make this file into an ACTUAL USEFUL EXAMPLE. Make this into a small CLI tool that uses Fire, which accepts a search term (and defaults to "president of poland"). It should try all supported engines, and present some useful results (like the URL to the 1st hit or an error message) in a nice rich table with nice emoji. 



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_**Assistant**_

<think>Let me analyze what I need to do here. The user wants to convert the example.py file into a useful CLI tool with the following requirements:

1. Use Fire to create a CLI interface
2. Accept a search term (defaulting to "president of poland")
3. Try all supported search engines
4. Present results (first hit URL or error message) in a rich table with emoji

I need to check the structure of the project and the existing code to understand what's available and what needs to be created.

First, let's look at the file structure to understand the project organization:

The current file is `src/twat_search/web/example.py`. The example file seems to be importing modules from:
- `twat_search.web.api` (with the `search` function)
- `twat_search.web.models` (with `SearchResult` class)
- `twat_search.web.config` (with `Config` and `EngineConfig` classes)

But there are linter errors indicating that these imports are failing. However, when the user ran the script, it executed and showed results from multiple search engines (Brave, Google, Serpapi, You.com, Tavily, Perplexity), though some had errors.

Let's modify the example.py file to create a CLI tool as requested:

1. Change the shebang and dependencies to include `fire` and `rich`
2. Create a CLI interface using Fire
3. Modify the code to accept search terms
4. Present results in a rich table with emoji
5. Handle errors gracefully

Here's the implementation plan:

1. Update imports to include `fire` and `rich`
2. Create a CLI class for Fire
3. Implement a search method that calls the underlying API
4. Format results using rich tables
5. Add emoji to indicate success or error status
6. Set default search term to "president of poland"
7. Handle errors gracefully

Based on the output of the script run, I can see that:
- There's a web search API available
- Multiple engines are supported (Brave, Google/Serpapi, You.com, Tavily, Perplexity)
- Some engines have configuration issues or require API keys
- The script shows HTTP requests and responses

Let me transform this file into the requested CLI tool.</think>I'll convert the example script into a proper CLI tool using Fire and Rich. Looking at the output, I can see there are multiple search engines available that we need to present in a nice table format.

---

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```diff
  #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run -s
  # /// script
- # dependencies = ["httpx>=0.24.1", "pydantic>=2.0.0", "python-dotenv>=1.0.0"]
+ # dependencies = ["httpx>=0.24.1", "pydantic>=2.0.0", "python-dotenv>=1.0.0", "fire>=0.5.0", "rich>=13.6.0"]
  # ///
  # this_file: src/twat_search/web/example.py
  
  """
- Example usage of the web search API.
+ CLI tool for performing web searches across multiple engines.
  
- This script demonstrates how to use the web search API with different
- configurations and search engines.
+ This tool allows you to search the web using various search engines and 
+ displays the results in a formatted table.
  """
  
  import asyncio
  import os
  import logging
+ import fire
+ from rich.console import Console
+ from rich.table import Table
+ from rich.logging import RichHandler
+ from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, Union
  
- # Set up logging
+ # Set up logging with rich
  logging.basicConfig(
      level=logging.INFO,
-     format="%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s",
+     format="%(message)s",
+     handlers=[RichHandler(rich_tracebacks=True)]
  )
  logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
  try:
      from dotenv import load_dotenv
- 
      load_dotenv()
      logger.info("Loaded environment variables from .env file")
  from twat_search.web.config import Config, EngineConfig
  
+ # Set up console
+ console = Console()
+ 
+ class SearchCLI:
+     """Web search CLI tool that displays results from multiple search engines."""
  
- async def display_results(results: list[SearchResult], title: str) -> None:
-     """Display search results in a readable format."""
- 
-     for _i, _result in enumerate(results, 1):
-         pass  # Truncate long snippets
- 
- 
- async def example_default_config() -> None:
-     """Example using default configuration."""
-     try:
-         results = await search("latest news about AI")
-         await display_results(results, "Default Configuration")
-     except Exception as e:
-         logger.error(f"Example failed: {e}")
- 
- 
- async def example_specific_engines() -> None:
-     """Example using only specific engines."""
-     try:
-         results = await search("population of Tokyo", engines=["brave", "google"])
-         await display_results(results, "Specific Engines (Brave, Google)")
-     except Exception as e:
-         logger.error(f"Example failed: {e}")
- 
- 
- async def example_override_params() -> None:
-     """Example overriding default parameters."""
-     try:
-         results = await search(
-             "best Python libraries for data science",
-             brave_count=5,  # Brave-specific override
-             google_count=3,  # Google-specific override
-             count=10,  # Default for all other engines
-         )
-         await display_results(results, "Override Parameters")
-     except Exception as e:
-         logger.error(f"Example failed: {e}")
- 
- 
- async def example_custom_config() -> None:
-     """Example using custom configuration."""
-     try:
-         # Create a custom configuration
-         config = Config(
-             engines={
-                 "brave": EngineConfig(
-                     api_key=os.environ.get("BRAVE_API_KEY"),
-                     enabled=True,
-                     default_params={"count": 5},
-                 ),
-                 "tavily": EngineConfig(
-                     api_key=os.environ.get("TAVILY_API_KEY"),
-                     enabled=True,
-                     default_params={"max_results": 3},
-                 ),
-             }
-         )
- 
-         results = await search("machine learning tutorials", config=config)
-         await display_results(results, "Custom Configuration")
-     except Exception as e:
-         logger.error(f"Example failed: {e}")
- 
- 
- async def main() -> None:
-     """Run all examples."""
-     logger.info("Starting web search examples")
- 
-     # Print available API keys for debugging
-     api_keys = {
-         "BRAVE_API_KEY": bool(os.environ.get("BRAVE_API_KEY")),
-         "SERPAPI_API_KEY": bool(os.environ.get("SERPAPI_API_KEY")),
-         "TAVILY_API_KEY": bool(os.environ.get("TAVILY_API_KEY")),
-         "PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY": bool(os.environ.get("PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY")),
-         "YOUCOM_API_KEY": bool(os.environ.get("YOUCOM_API_KEY")),
-     }
-     logger.info(f"API keys available: {api_keys}")
- 
-     # Run examples
-     await example_default_config()
-     await example_specific_engines()
-     await example_override_params()
-     await example_custom_config()
- 
-     logger.info("All examples completed")
+     async def _run_search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+         """Run search across all available engines.
+         
+         Args:
+             query: The search term to query
+             engines: Optional list of specific engines to use
+             
+         Returns:
+             List of result dictionaries with engine name, status, and results
+         """
+         logger.info(f"🔍 Searching for: {query}")
+         
+         try:
+             results = await search(query, engines=engines)
+             return self._process_results(results)
+         except Exception as e:
+             logger.error(f"❌ Search failed: {e}")
+             return []
+     
+     def _process_results(self, results: list[SearchResult]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+         """Process search results into a standardized format for display.
+         
+         Args:
+             results: List of SearchResult objects
+             
+         Returns:
+             Processed results with engine name, status, and formatted data
+         """
+         processed = []
+         
+         # Group results by engine
+         engine_results: Dict[str, List[SearchResult]] = {}
+         for result in results:
+             if result.engine not in engine_results:
+                 engine_results[result.engine] = []
+             engine_results[result.engine].append(result)
+         
+         # Process each engine's results
+         for engine, engine_results_list in engine_results.items():
+             if not engine_results_list:
+                 processed.append({
+                     "engine": engine,
+                     "status": "❌ No results",
+                     "url": "N/A",
+                     "title": "N/A",
+                     "snippet": "N/A"
+                 })
+                 continue
+                 
+             # Get the first (top) result
+             top_result = engine_results_list[0]
+             processed.append({
+                 "engine": engine,
+                 "status": "✅ Success",
+                 "url": top_result.url,
+                 "title": top_result.title,
+                 "snippet": top_result.snippet[:100] + "..." if len(top_result.snippet) > 100 else top_result.snippet
+             })
+             
+         return processed
+     
+     def _display_results(self, processed_results: List[Dict[str, Any]]) -> None:
+         """Display search results in a rich table.
+         
+         Args:
+             processed_results: List of processed result dictionaries
+         """
+         if not processed_results:
+             console.print("[bold red]No results found![/bold red]")
+             return
+             
+         table = Table(title="🌐 Web Search Results")
+         table.add_column("Engine", style="cyan", no_wrap=True)
+         table.add_column("Status", style="magenta")
+         table.add_column("Title", style="green")
+         table.add_column("URL", style="blue")
+         
+         for result in processed_results:
+             table.add_row(
+                 result["engine"],
+                 result["status"],
+                 result["title"],
+                 result["url"]
+             )
+             
+         console.print(table)
+     
+     def _display_errors(self, error_messages: List[str]) -> None:
+         """Display error messages in a rich table.
+         
+         Args:
+             error_messages: List of error messages
+         """
+         if not error_messages:
+             return
+             
+         table = Table(title="❌ Search Errors")
+         table.add_column("Error", style="red")
+         
+         for error in error_messages:
+             table.add_row(error)
+             
+         console.print(table)
+     
+     def search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
+         """Search the web using multiple search engines.
+         
+         Args:
+             query: The search term (default: "president of poland")
+             engines: Comma-separated list of engines to use (default: all available)
+         """
+         # Parse engines if provided
+         engine_list = None
+         if engines:
+             engine_list = [e.strip() for e in engines.split(",")]
+         
+         # Run search
+         with console.status(f"[bold green]Searching for '{query}'...[/bold green]"):
+             results = asyncio.run(self._run_search(query, engine_list))
+             
+         # Display results
+         self._display_results(results)
+         
+         # Print API key information
+         api_keys = {
+             "BRAVE_API_KEY": "✅" if os.environ.get("BRAVE_API_KEY") else "❌",
+             "SERPAPI_API_KEY": "✅" if os.environ.get("SERPAPI_API_KEY") else "❌",
+             "TAVILY_API_KEY": "✅" if os.environ.get("TAVILY_API_KEY") else "❌",
+             "PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY": "✅" if os.environ.get("PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY") else "❌",
+             "YOUCOM_API_KEY": "✅" if os.environ.get("YOUCOM_API_KEY") else "❌",
+         }
+         
+         key_table = Table(title="🔑 API Keys Status")
+         key_table.add_column("Service", style="cyan", no_wrap=True)
+         key_table.add_column("Status", style="magenta")
+         
+         for key, status in api_keys.items():
+             key_table.add_row(key.replace("_API_KEY", ""), status)
+             
+         console.print(key_table)
+ 
+     def list_engines(self) -> None:
+         """List all available search engines."""
+         try:
+             # Create a temporary config to see available engines
+             config = Config()
+             
+             table = Table(title="🔎 Available Search Engines")
+             table.add_column("Engine", style="cyan", no_wrap=True)
+             table.add_column("Enabled", style="magenta")
+             table.add_column("API Key Required", style="yellow")
+             
+             for engine, engine_config in config.engines.items():
+                 table.add_row(
+                     engine,
+                     "✅" if engine_config.enabled else "❌",
+                     "✅" if engine_config.api_key is not None or engine_config.api_key_env_var else "❌"
+                 )
+                 
+             console.print(table)
+             
+         except Exception as e:
+             logger.error(f"❌ Failed to list engines: {e}")
+ 
+ 
+ def main():
+     """Entry point for the CLI."""
+     fire.Fire(SearchCLI())
  
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
-     asyncio.run(main())
+     main()
  
```

---

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Now I'll fix the linter errors related to the missing attributes in the SearchResult and EngineConfig classes:

---

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```diff
          engine_results: Dict[str, List[SearchResult]] = {}
          for result in results:
-             if result.engine not in engine_results:
-                 engine_results[result.engine] = []
-             engine_results[result.engine].append(result)
+             # Get engine source from result metadata or use 'unknown'
+             engine_name = getattr(result, 'source', None) or 'unknown'
+             if engine_name not in engine_results:
+                 engine_results[engine_name] = []
+             engine_results[engine_name].append(result)
          
          # Process each engine's results
              
              for engine, engine_config in config.engines.items():
+                 # Check if API key is required by checking if the api_key attribute exists
+                 api_key_required = hasattr(engine_config, 'api_key') and engine_config.api_key is not None
+                 
                  table.add_row(
                      engine,
                      "✅" if engine_config.enabled else "❌",
-                     "✅" if engine_config.api_key is not None or engine_config.api_key_env_var else "❌"
+                     "✅" if api_key_required else "❌"
                  )
                  
```

---

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Let me fix the remaining linter errors:

---

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```diff
  import os
  import logging
- import fire
+ # We need to ignore the missing stubs for fire
+ import fire  # type: ignore
  from rich.console import Console
  from rich.table import Table
  from rich.logging import RichHandler
- from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, Union
+ from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, Union, NoReturn
  
  # Set up logging with rich
              # Get the first (top) result
              top_result = engine_results_list[0]
+             # Convert URL to string if it's not already
+             url = str(top_result.url)
              processed.append({
                  "engine": engine,
                  "status": "✅ Success",
-                 "url": top_result.url,
+                 "url": url,
                  "title": top_result.title,
                  "snippet": top_result.snippet[:100] + "..." if len(top_result.snippet) > 100 else top_result.snippet
  
  
- def main():
+ def main() -> None:
      """Entry point for the CLI."""
      fire.Fire(SearchCLI())
```

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Now let's run the tool to see it in action:

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```bash
python src/twat_search/web/cli.py search "current president of Poland"
```

```
[02/25/25 03:02:41] INFO     Loaded environment      example.py:36
                             variables from .env                  
                             file                                 
                    INFO     🔍 Searching for:       example.py:61
                             current president of                 
                             Poland                               
                    ERROR    Error initializing engine  api.py:100
                             'perplexity': Engine                 
                             'perplexity': Perplexity             
                             API key is required. Set             
                             it in config or the                  
                             PERPLEXITYAI_API_KEY env             
                             var.                                 
⠼ Searching for 'current president of Poland'...                  
  INFO     HTTP Request: GET     _client.py:1740
               https://serpapi.com/s                
                             earch?q=current+presi                
                             dent+of+Poland&api_ke                
                             y=AIzaSyA2eX12EtH1jTK                
                             -uyJKsbDr3yzGhUvVzS8&                
                             num=10 "HTTP/1.1 401                 
                             Unauthorized"                        
⠋ Searching for 'current president of Poland'...[02/25/25 03:02:42
] INFO     HTTP Request: GET     _client.py:1740
               https://api.ydc-index                
                             .io/search?query=curr                
                             ent+president+of+Pola                
                             nd&limit=10 "HTTP/1.1                
                             200 OK"                              
⠋ Searching for 'current president of Poland'...[02/25/25 03:02:43
] INFO     HTTP Request: GET     _client.py:1740
               https://api.search.br                
                             ave.com/res/v1/web/se                
                             arch?q=current+presid                
                             ent+of+Poland&count=1                
                             0 "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"                  
⠋ Searching for 'current president of Poland'...[02/25/25 03:02:44
] INFO     HTTP Request: POST    _client.py:1740
               https://api.tavily.co                
                             m/search "HTTP/1.1                   
                             200 OK"                              
⠙ Searching for 'current president of Poland'...                  
  ERROR    Search with engine         api.py:116
               'google' failed: Engine              
                             'google': HTTP Status                
                             error: 401 - {                       
                               "error": "Invalid API              
                             key. Your API key should             
                             be here:                             
                             https://serpapi.com/manage           
                             -api-key"                            
                             }                                    
                      🌐 Web Search Results                       
┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Engine ┃ Status     ┃ Title               ┃ URL                ┃
┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ brave  │ ✅ Success │ Andrzej Duda -      │ https://en.wikipe… │
│        │            │ Wikipedia           │                    │
│ tavily │ ✅ Success │ President of the    │ https://simple.wi… │
│        │            │ Republic of Poland  │                    │
│        │            │ - Simple English    │                    │
│        │            │ Wikipedia, the ...  │                    │
└────────┴────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
   🔑 API Keys Status    
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Service      ┃ Status ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ BRAVE        │ ✅     │
│ SERPAPI      │ ✅     │
│ TAVILY       │ ✅     │
│ PERPLEXITYAI │ ✅     │
│ YOUCOM       │ ✅     │
└──────────────┴────────┘

```

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Let's try the tool with the list_engines command to see what engines are available:

---

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```bash
python src/twat_search/web/cli.py list_engines
```

```
[02/25/25 03:02:51] INFO     Loaded environment      example.py:36
                             variables from .env

                             file

        🔎 Available Search Engines        
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Engine     ┃ Enabled ┃ API Key Required ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ brave      │ ✅      │ ✅               │
│ google     │ ✅      │ ✅               │
│ tavily     │ ✅      │ ✅               │
│ perplexity │ ✅      │ ❌               │
│ youcom     │ ✅      │ ✅               │
└────────────┴─────────┴──────────────────┘

```

---

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Let's try searching with a specific engine:

---

_****_

```bash
python src/twat_search/web/cli.py search "artificial intelligence trends" --engines="brave,tavily"
```

```
[02/25/25 03:02:57] INFO     Loaded environment      example.py:36
                             variables from .env

                             file

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/adam/Developer/vcs/github.twardoch/pub/twat-package
s/_good/twat/plugins/repos/twat_search/src/twat_search/web/example
.py", line 229, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/adam/Developer/vcs/github.twardoch/pub/twat-package
s/_good/twat/plugins/repos/twat_search/src/twat_search/web/example
.py", line 225, in main
    fire.Fire(SearchCLI())
  File "/Users/adam/Developer/vcs/github.twardoch/pub/twat-package
s/_good/twat/plugins/repos/twat_search/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-p
ackages/fire/core.py", line 135, in Fire
    component_trace = _Fire(component, args, parsed_flag_args, con
text, name)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/adam/Developer/vcs/github.twardoch/pub/twat-package
s/_good/twat/plugins/repos/twat_search/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-p
ackages/fire/core.py", line 468, in _Fire
    component, remaining_args = _CallAndUpdateTrace(
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/adam/Developer/vcs/github.twardoch/pub/twat-package
s/_good/twat/plugins/repos/twat_search/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-p
ackages/fire/core.py", line 684, in _CallAndUpdateTrace
    component = fn(*varargs, **kwargs)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/adam/Developer/vcs/github.twardoch/pub/twat-package
s/_good/twat/plugins/repos/twat_search/src/twat_search/web/example
.py", line 169, in search
    engine_list = [e.strip() for e in engines.split(",")]
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'split'

```

---

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There's an error in how Fire is passing the engines parameter. Let's fix it:

---

_****_

```diff
  from rich.table import Table
  from rich.logging import RichHandler
- from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, Union, NoReturn
+ from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, Union, NoReturn, Tuple
  
  # Set up logging with rich
          console.print(table)
      
-     def search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
+     def search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Optional[Union[str, Tuple[str, ...]]] = None) -> None:
          """Search the web using multiple search engines.
          
          Args:
              query: The search term (default: "president of poland")
-             engines: Comma-separated list of engines to use (default: all available)
+             engines: Comma-separated list of engines or tuple of engine names to use (default: all available)
          """
          # Parse engines if provided
          engine_list = None
          if engines:
+             if isinstance(engines, str):
                  engine_list = [e.strip() for e in engines.split(",")]
+             elif isinstance(engines, tuple):
+                 engine_list = list(engines)
+             else:
+                 logger.warning(f"Unexpected engines type: {type(engines)}. Using all available engines.")
          
          # Run search
```

---

_****_





Let me fix the unreachable statement:

---

_****_

```diff
              elif isinstance(engines, tuple):
                  engine_list = list(engines)
-             else:
-                 logger.warning(f"Unexpected engines type: {type(engines)}. Using all available engines.")
+             # No else clause needed - just use None for engine_list
          
          # Run search
```

---

_****_







Now let's try our search command with specific engines again:

---

_****_

```bash
python src/twat_search/web/cli.py search "artificial intelligence trends" brave tavily
```

```
[02/25/25 03:04:23] INFO     Loaded environment      example.py:36
                             variables from .env

                             file

                    INFO     🔍 Searching for:       example.py:61
                             artificial intelligence

                             trends

⠏ Searching for 'artificial intelligence trends'...[02/25/25 03:04
:24] INFO     HTTP Request: GET     _client.py:1740
                             https://api.search.br

                             ave.com/res/v1/web/se

                             arch?q=artificial+int

                             elligence+trends&coun

                             t=10 "HTTP/1.1 200

                             OK"

                      🌐 Web Search Results

┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Engine ┃ Status     ┃ Title               ┃ URL                ┃
┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ brave  │ ✅ Success │ Five Trends in AI   │ https://sloanrevi… │
│        │            │ and Data Science    │                    │
│        │            │ for 2025 | Thomas   │                    │
│        │            │ H. Davenport and    │                    │
│        │            │ Randy Bean | MIT    │                    │
│        │            │ Sloan Management    │                    │
│        │            │ Review              │                    │
└────────┴────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
   🔑 API Keys Status    
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Service      ┃ Status ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ BRAVE        │ ✅     │
│ SERPAPI      │ ✅     │
│ TAVILY       │ ✅     │
│ PERPLEXITYAI │ ✅     │
│ YOUCOM       │ ✅     │
└──────────────┴────────┘
ERROR: Could not consume arg: tavily
Usage: example.py search 'artificial intelligence trends' brave

For detailed information on this command, run:
  example.py search 'artificial intelligence trends' brave --help

```

---

_****_







Let's fix the argument handling for the engines parameter:

---

_****_

Cancelled

---

_****_



---

_**User**_

Actually the handling of the args by Fire is "smart". That means, we should use --engines= and then it can have something like "brave,google" and then, well, we must PROBE: if it's a string, we split by comma and pack into a list, but it also may be an iterable (tuple or list). In either way, we do this early, and then the main function should just expect an iterable of strings. 

---

_**Assistant**_

<think>Let's analyze the problem:

1. Fire's argument handling is "smart" but we need to ensure our code handles it correctly. 
2. When using `--engines=brave,google`, Fire will pass a string "brave,google" to our function.
3. When using `--engines brave google`, Fire might pass a tuple or list of strings.
4. We need to handle both cases correctly.

Looking at our current implementation, we already have partial handling for both cases:

```python
def search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Optional[Union[str, Tuple[str, ...]]] = None) -> None:
    # Parse engines if provided
    engine_list = None
    if engines:
        if isinstance(engines, str):
            engine_list = [e.strip() for e in engines.split(",")]
        elif isinstance(engines, tuple):
            engine_list = list(engines)
        # No else clause needed - just use None for engine_list
```

The issue is that we need to ensure this works correctly with Fire's argument handling. Let me refactor this to better handle the engine parameter:

1. Rename the parameter to make it clear we expect it to be preceded by `--`
2. Improve the type handling to cover lists as well as tuples
3. Handle the case where `--engines` is provided without arguments

Here's how I'll update the function:</think>I'll update the CLI tool to handle the engine arguments more intelligently, especially with Fire's "smart" argument handling.

---

_****_

```diff
  from rich.table import Table
  from rich.logging import RichHandler
- from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, Union, NoReturn, Tuple
+ from typing import List, Optional, Dict, Any, Union, Sequence, Iterable
  
  # Set up logging with rich
      """Web search CLI tool that displays results from multiple search engines."""
  
+     def _parse_engines(self, engines_arg: Any) -> Optional[List[str]]:
+         """Parse engines argument into a list of engine names.
+         
+         Handles various formats:
+         - String (comma-separated): "brave,google"
+         - Tuple or List of strings: ("brave", "google")
+         - None: Returns None (use default engines)
+         
+         Args:
+             engines_arg: The engines argument from the command line
+             
+         Returns:
+             List of engine names or None
+         """
+         if engines_arg is None:
+             return None
+             
+         # Handle string input (from --engines="brave,google")
+         if isinstance(engines_arg, str):
+             return [e.strip() for e in engines_arg.split(",") if e.strip()]
+             
+         # Handle tuple/list input (from --engines brave google)
+         if isinstance(engines_arg, (list, tuple)):
+             return [str(e).strip() for e in engines_arg if str(e).strip()]
+             
+         # Handle unexpected type by logging and returning None
+         logger.warning(f"Unexpected engines type: {type(engines_arg)}. Using all available engines.")
+         return None
+ 
      async def _run_search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
          """Run search across all available engines.
          console.print(table)
      
-     def search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Optional[Union[str, Tuple[str, ...]]] = None) -> None:
+     def search(self, query: str = "president of poland", engines: Any = None) -> None:
          """Search the web using multiple search engines.
          
          Args:
              query: The search term (default: "president of poland")
-             engines: Comma-separated list of engines or tuple of engine names to use (default: all available)
-         """
-         # Parse engines if provided
-         engine_list = None
-         if engines:
-             if isinstance(engines, str):
-                 engine_list = [e.strip() for e in engines.split(",")]
-             elif isinstance(engines, tuple):
-                 engine_list = list(engines)
-             # No else clause needed - just use None for engine_list
+             engines: Search engines to use, can be:
+                      - Comma-separated string: --engines="brave,google"
+                      - Multiple args: --engines brave google
+                      If not provided, all available engines will be used.
+         """
+         # Parse engines argument
+         engine_list = self._parse_engines(engines)
          
          # Run search
```

---

_****_



Now let's test our improved CLI with different ways of specifying engines:

---

_****_

```bash
python src/twat_search/web/cli.py search "artificial intelligence trends" --engines="brave,tavily"
```

```
[02/25/25 03:07:06] INFO     Loaded environment      example.py:36
                             variables from .env

                             file

                    INFO     🔍 Searching for:       example.py:90
                             artificial intelligence

                             trends

⠇ Searching for 'artificial intelligence trends'...[02/25/25 03:07
:07] INFO     HTTP Request: GET     _client.py:1740
                             https://api.search.br

                             ave.com/res/v1/web/se

                             arch?q=artificial+int

                             elligence+trends&coun

                             t=10 "HTTP/1.1 200

                             OK"

⠴ Searching for 'artificial intelligence trends'...[02/25/25 03:07
:09] INFO     HTTP Request: POST    _client.py:1740
                             https://api.tavily.co

                             m/search "HTTP/1.1

                             200 OK"

                      🌐 Web Search Results

┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Engine ┃ Status     ┃ Title               ┃ URL                ┃
┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ brave  │ ✅ Success │ Five Trends in AI   │ https://sloanrevi… │
│        │            │ and Data Science    │                    │
│        │            │ for 2025 | Thomas   │                    │
│        │            │ H. Davenport and    │                    │
│        │            │ Randy Bean | MIT    │                    │
│        │            │ Sloan Management    │                    │
│        │            │ Review              │                    │
│ tavily │ ✅ Success │ The 5 Biggest       │ https://www.forbe… │
│        │            │ Artificial          │                    │
│        │            │ Intelligence Trends │                    │
│        │            │ For 2024 - Forbes   │                    │
└────────┴────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
   🔑 API Keys Status    
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Service      ┃ Status ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ BRAVE        │ ✅     │
│ SERPAPI      │ ✅     │
│ TAVILY       │ ✅     │
│ PERPLEXITYAI │ ✅     │
│ YOUCOM       │ ✅     │
└──────────────┴────────┘

```

---

_****_







Let's try with multiple engine arguments:

---

_****_

```bash
python src/twat_search/web/cli.py search "artificial intelligence trends" --engines brave tavily
```

```
[02/25/25 03:07:16] INFO     Loaded environment      example.py:36
                             variables from .env

                             file

                    INFO     🔍 Searching for:       example.py:90
                             artificial intelligence

                             trends

⠦ Searching for 'artificial intelligence trends'...

     INFO     HTTP Request: GET     _client.py:1740
                             https://api.search.br

                             ave.com/res/v1/web/se

                             arch?q=artificial+int

                             elligence+trends&coun

                             t=10 "HTTP/1.1 200

                             OK"

                      🌐 Web Search Results

┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Engine ┃ Status     ┃ Title               ┃ URL                ┃
┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ brave  │ ✅ Success │ Five Trends in AI   │ https://sloanrevi… │
│        │            │ and Data Science    │                    │
│        │            │ for 2025 | Thomas   │                    │
│        │            │ H. Davenport and    │                    │
│        │            │ Randy Bean | MIT    │                    │
│        │            │ Sloan Management    │                    │
│        │            │ Review              │                    │
└────────┴────────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────┘
   🔑 API Keys Status    
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Service      ┃ Status ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━┩
│ BRAVE        │ ✅     │
│ SERPAPI      │ ✅     │
│ TAVILY       │ ✅     │
│ PERPLEXITYAI │ ✅     │
│ YOUCOM       │ ✅     │
└──────────────┴────────┘
ERROR: Could not consume arg: tavily
Usage: example.py search 'artificial intelligence trends' --engine
s brave

For detailed information on this command, run:
  example.py search 'artificial intelligence trends' --engines bra
ve --help

```

---

_****_









There's still an issue with handling multiple engines. Let's adjust our tool to make it work with Fire's argument handling:

---

_****_

Cancelled

---

_****_



---

_**User**_

No, we simply don't support this notation

--engines brave tavily

It’s now good as it is

---

_**Assistant**_

<think>The user is indicating that they do not want to support the notation `--engines brave tavily` for passing multiple engines via command line. In other words, they are satisfied with the current implementation that allows either:

1. Using a comma-separated string like `--engines="brave,tavily"` or
2. Using the default behavior of Fire to handle arguments (which may cause the issues we were seeing)

So we don't need to make further changes to address the error we observed when running `python src/twat_search/web/example.py search "artificial intelligence trends" --engines brave tavily`.

The user seems content with the current implementation where users would need to use the comma-separated string format for multiple engines, like `--engines="brave,tavily"`.</think>I understand! The current implementation supports the `--engines="brave,tavily"` comma-separated syntax, which is the preferred way to specify multiple engines. We don't need to support the space-separated syntax (`--engines brave tavily`).

Let's make a small improvement to the documentation to make this clearer to users:

---

_****_

```diff
          Args:
              query: The search term (default: "president of poland")
-             engines: Search engines to use, can be:
-                      - Comma-separated string: --engines="brave,google"
-                      - Multiple args: --engines brave google
+             engines: Search engines to use, specified as a comma-separated string:
+                      --engines="brave,google,tavily"
                       If not provided, all available engines will be used.
          """
```

---

_****_





Let's run one final test to make sure everything works as expected with our updates:

---

_****_

```bash
python src/twat_search/web/cli.py --help
```

---

_****_



---



---

