Company-Wide Document Search
Search across personal and shared drives to find documents organization-wide.
"""
Company-Wide Document Search
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Search across personal and shared drives to find documents organization-wide.
Example scenario: A compliance officer preparing for an external audit needs to
locate policy documents across the company, regardless of which team drive
they're stored in. The structured output makes it easy to generate a report.
Key concepts:
- corpora="allDrives": Search personal Drive AND all Shared Drives you can access
- incompleteSearch: API flag when Google couldn't search all drives (agent adds notice)
Setup:
1. Create OAuth credentials at https://console.cloud.google.com (enable Google Drive API)
2. Export GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET, GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID env vars
3. pip install openai google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib
4. First run opens browser for OAuth consent, saves token.json for reuse
"""
from typing import List, Optional
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIResponses
from agno.tools.google.drive import GoogleDriveTools
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
class DocumentResult(BaseModel):
name: str = Field(..., description="File name")
file_id: str = Field(..., description="Google Drive file ID")
owner: Optional[str] = Field(None, description="File owner email")
web_link: Optional[str] = Field(None, description="Link to open in browser")
class CompanySearchResult(BaseModel):
query: str = Field(..., description="The search query used")
documents: List[DocumentResult] = Field(default_factory=list)
total_found: int = Field(..., description="Number of documents found")
notice: Optional[str] = Field(
None,
description="Warning if results are incomplete or other issues",
)
agent = Agent(
name="Compliance Document Finder",
model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.5"),
tools=[
GoogleDriveTools(
corpora="allDrives",
supports_all_drives=True,
include_items_from_all_drives=True,
)
],
instructions=[
"Search across all drives the user has access to.",
"If incompleteSearch is true, add a notice that some shared drives could not be searched.",
"Include owner email when available from the owners field.",
],
output_schema=CompanySearchResult,
)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run: Pre-Audit Policy Document Discovery
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
# Scenario: Compliance officer preparing for external audit
result = agent.run(
"Find Google Docs with 'policy' in the name. "
"I need to review our company policies before next week's audit."
)
# Generate a simple audit report
search_result: CompanySearchResult = result.content
print("Policy Document Audit Report")
print(f"{'=' * 40}")
print(f"Search: {search_result.query}")
print(f"Found: {search_result.total_found} documents\n")
if search_result.notice:
print(f"Notice: {search_result.notice}\n")
for doc in search_result.documents:
print(f"- {doc.name}")
print(f" Owner: {doc.owner or 'Unknown'}")
print(f" Link: {doc.web_link or 'N/A'}\n")Search returns one page at a time, normally ten files and at most twenty with this configuration. Follow nextPageToken to satisfy an “all files” request; a single response's count is not the total across pages. Search is limited to files the authenticated identity can access. incompleteSearch=True must remain visible in the final report even after pagination.
Run the Example
Set up your virtual environment
uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activateInstall dependencies
uv pip install -U agno google-api-python-client google-auth google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib openai openpyxl python-docx python-pptxConfigure Google OAuth
Enable the Google API used by this example, configure the consent screen, and create a Desktop OAuth client in your Cloud project. Export its GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET, and GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID, or place the downloaded client JSON at credentials.json in the directory where you run Python. Google's Python quickstart shows the Desktop client setup.
The first tool call opens a browser for consent and caches credentials in token.json. Use a separate token_path when switching accounts. Passing an Agno user_id does not switch the authenticated Google account.
Export environment variables
export GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID="your_google_client_id_here"
export GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET="your_google_client_secret_here"
export GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID="your_google_project_id_here"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"Run the example
Save the code above as shared_drive_search.py, then run:
python shared_drive_search.pyFull source: cookbook/91_tools/google/drive/shared_drive_search.py