Currents api

Learn how to use Currents api with Composio

Overview

SLUG: CURRENTS_API

Description

Currents News API provides access to the latest news articles from various sources worldwide, supporting multiple languages and categories.

Authentication Details

generic_api_key
stringRequired

Connecting to Currents api

Create an auth config

Use the dashboard to create an auth config for the Currents api toolkit. This allows you to connect multiple Currents api accounts to Composio for agents to use.

1

Select App

Navigate to [Currents api](https://platform.composio.dev?next_page=/marketplace/Currents api).

2

Configure Auth Config Settings

Select among the supported auth schemes of and configure them here.

3

Create and Get auth config ID

Click “Create Currents api Auth Config”. After creation, copy the displayed ID starting with ac_. This is your auth config ID. This is not a sensitive ID — you can save it in environment variables or a database. This ID will be used to create connections to the toolkit for a given user.

Connect Your Account

Using API Key

1from composio import Composio
2
3# Replace these with your actual values
4currents_api_auth_config_id = "ac_YOUR_CURRENTS_API_CONFIG_ID" # Auth config ID created above
5user_id = "0000-0000-0000" # UUID from database/app
6
7composio = Composio()
8
9def authenticate_toolkit(user_id: str, auth_config_id: str):
10 # Replace this with a method to retrieve an API key from the user.
11 # Or supply your own.
12 user_api_key = input("[!] Enter API key")
13
14 connection_request = composio.connected_accounts.initiate(
15 user_id=user_id,
16 auth_config_id=auth_config_id,
17 config={"auth_scheme": "API_KEY", "val": {"generic_api_key": user_api_key}}
18 )
19
20 # API Key authentication is immediate - no redirect needed
21 print(f"Successfully connected Currents api for user {user_id}")
22 print(f"Connection status: {connection_request.status}")
23
24 return connection_request.id
25
26
27connection_id = authenticate_toolkit(user_id, currents_api_auth_config_id)
28
29# You can verify the connection using:
30connected_account = composio.connected_accounts.get(connection_id)
31print(f"Connected account: {connected_account}")

Tools

Executing tools

To prototype you can execute some tools to see the responses and working on the [Currents api toolkit’s playground](https://app.composio.dev/app/Currents api)

Python
1from composio import Composio
2from openai import OpenAI
3import json
4
5openai = OpenAI()
6composio = Composio()
7
8# User ID must be a valid UUID format
9user_id = "0000-0000-0000" # Replace with actual user UUID from your database
10
11tools = composio.tools.get(user_id=user_id, toolkits=["CURRENTS_API"])
12
13print("[!] Tools:")
14print(json.dumps(tools))
15
16def invoke_llm(task = "What can you do?"):
17 completion = openai.chat.completions.create(
18 model="gpt-4o",
19 messages=[
20 {
21 "role": "user",
22 "content": task, # Your task here!
23 },
24 ],
25 tools=tools,
26 )
27
28 # Handle Result from tool call
29 result = composio.provider.handle_tool_calls(user_id=user_id, response=completion)
30 print(f"[!] Completion: {completion}")
31 print(f"[!] Tool call result: {result}")
32
33invoke_llm()

Tool List

Tool Name: List Latest News

Description

Tool to retrieve the latest news articles from Currents News API. Use when you need a real-time feed of recent articles.

Action Parameters

language
string

Action Response

data
objectRequired
error
string
successful
booleanRequired

Tool Name: Activities Watch

Description

Tool to start a notification channel to watch activities for a specified user and application. Use when needing to receive push notifications for user activity; call after OAuth credentials and webhook endpoint are set up.

Action Parameters

application_name
stringRequired
channel
objectRequired
user_key
stringRequired

Action Response

data
objectRequired
error
string
successful
booleanRequired

Tool Name: Get Entity Usage Reports

Description

Tool to retrieve usage statistics for a specific Google Workspace entity. Use when you need to analyze entity usage on a particular date.

Action Parameters

customerId
string
date
stringRequired
entityKey
stringRequired
entityType
stringRequired
filters
string
maxResults
integer
pageToken
string
parameters
string

Action Response

data
objectRequired
error
string
successful
booleanRequired

Tool Name: List Users

Description

Tool to list users in a Google Workspace domain. Note: - When the provided base_url points to Currents News API (api.currentsapi.services), this action will gracefully fall back to listing latest news articles to ensure a valid response, since the Currents News API does not expose a users endpoint. - When the base_url points to Google Admin Directory API, it will list users from the domain/customer specified.

Action Parameters

customFieldMask
string
customer
string
domain
string
maxResults
integer
orderBy
string
pageToken
string
projection
string
query
string
showDeleted
boolean
sortOrder
string
viewType
string

Action Response

data
objectRequired
error
string
successful
booleanRequired

Tool Name: Get User Usage Report

Description

Tool to retrieve the usage report for a specified user on a given date. Use after confirming the userKey and date. Use when detailed usage metrics are needed for auditing or monitoring.

Action Parameters

customerId
string
date
stringRequired
filters
string
groupIdFilter
string
maxResults
integer
orgUnitID
string
pageToken
string
parameters
string
userKey
stringRequired

Action Response

data
objectRequired
error
string
successful
booleanRequired