Gemini Google Search?

[ekenberg]

Looking at the documentation for Gemini API I see that Google Search can be used as a tool even with the REST API. Does that mean that the Google search is run on the server and not locally? And could we get this functionality using Gemini with gptel?

I tried adding

"tools": [
          {
              "google_search": {}
          }
      ]

to the JSON request sent by gptel but that resulted in a HTTP/2 404 error "Could not parse HTTP response".

Sorry if I don't understand how this works. Web search enhanced Gemini answers in gptel chat would be so awesome!

[knightsmove]

I tried :around advice on the Gemini-specific gptel--request-data. Couldn't get the elisp data structure to serialize into the correct JSON using json-encode. I can barely code in elisp - just vibe-coded a couple hours with gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 but failed. Would really rock if someone got this to work.

[eslgastal]

This seems to work:

(gptel-make-gemini "Gemini"
    :stream t
    :key "YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY"
    :request-params '(:tools [(:google_search ())])
    )

But makes tool-use not available. I think the correct procedure would be to add the "google_search" tool directly in gptel--parse-tools for gptel-gemini backend, based on a configurable option.