Perigon | Composio Docs

Overview

SLUG: PERIGON

Description

Perigon provides an HTTP REST API for retrieving news and web content data, offering structured data suitable for various applications.

Authentication Details

API Key

generic_api_key

stringRequired

Connecting to Perigon

Create an auth config

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

Select App

Navigate to Perigon.

Configure Auth Config Settings

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

Create and Get auth config ID

Click “Create Perigon 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

1 from composio import Composio
2 
3 # Replace these with your actual values
4 perigon_auth_config_id = "ac_YOUR_PERIGON_CONFIG_ID" # Auth config ID created above
5 user_id = "0000-0000-0000"  # UUID from database/app
6 
7 composio = Composio()
8 
9 def 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 Perigon for user {user_id}")
22     print(f"Connection status: {connection_request.status}")
23     
24     return connection_request.id
25 
26 
27 connection_id = authenticate_toolkit(user_id, perigon_auth_config_id)
28 
29 # You can verify the connection using:
30 connected_account = composio.connected_accounts.get(connection_id)
31 print(f"Connected account: {connected_account}")

Tools

Executing tools

To prototype you can execute some tools to see the responses and working on the Perigon toolkit’s playground

OpenAI (Python)

Anthropic (TypeScript)

Google (Python)

Vercel (TypeScript)

Python

1 from composio import Composio
2 from openai import OpenAI
3 import json
4 
5 openai = OpenAI()
6 composio = Composio()
7 
8 # User ID must be a valid UUID format
9 user_id = "0000-0000-0000"  # Replace with actual user UUID from your database
10 
11 tools = composio.tools.get(user_id=user_id, toolkits=["PERIGON"])
12 
13 print("[!] Tools:")
14 print(json.dumps(tools))
15 
16 def 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 
33 invoke_llm()

Tool List

PERIGON_GET_ARTICLES

Tool Name: Get News Articles

Description

Tool to retrieve a list of news articles based on filters. Use when keywords, sources, or date ranges are specified.

Action Parameters

PERIGON_GET_COMPANIES

Tool Name: Get Companies

Description

Tool to retrieve information on companies in Perigon’s entity database. Use when you need a full list of companies. Use after confirming a valid API key is present.

Action Parameters

Action Response

data

objectRequired

error

string

successful

booleanRequired

PERIGON_GET_JOURNALISTS

Tool Name: Get Journalists

Description

Tool to retrieve journalist profiles including title, Twitter handle, bio, and location. Use when you need detailed journalist info to enrich content with author metadata.

Action Parameters

limit

integer

offset

integer

outlet

string

query

string

Action Response

data

objectRequired

error

string

successful

booleanRequired

PERIGON_GET_SOURCES

Tool Name: Get Media Sources

Description

Tool to retrieve a list of media sources with filtering options. Use when you need to list sources by domain, country, category, or traffic metrics.

Action Parameters

PERIGON_GET_STORIES

Tool Name: Get Stories

Description

Tool to retrieve clusters of related articles covering the same event or topic with aggregate metrics. Use when you need to fetch filtered and sorted story clusters after configuring query parameters.

Action Parameters

PERIGON_GET_TOPICS

Tool Name: Get Topics

Description

Tool to retrieve available Perigon news topics using contextual intelligence. Use after authenticating and when exploring article topics.

Action Parameters

string

type

string

Action Response

data

objectRequired

error

string

successful

booleanRequired

PERIGON_GET_WIKIPEDIA

Tool Name: Get Wikipedia Articles

Description

Tool to search and filter Wikipedia pages. Use when you have a search query ready and want to retrieve relevant Wikipedia articles.

Action Parameters

language

string

page

integerDefaults to 1

stringRequired

size

integerDefaults to 10

Action Response

data

objectRequired

error

string

successful

booleanRequired

PERIGON_VECTOR_SEARCH_ARTICLES

Tool Name: Vector Search Articles

Description

Tool to perform a vector search on Perigon’s real-time news database. Use when you need to retrieve semantically similar news articles given a natural language query.

Action Parameters

filter

object

include_vectors

boolean

query

stringRequired

top_k

integerDefaults to 10

vector_options

object

Action Response

data

objectRequired

error

string

successful

booleanRequired

PERIGON_VECTOR_SEARCH_WIKIPEDIA

Tool Name: Vector Search Wikipedia

Description

Tool to perform semantic retrieval of Wikipedia pages using vector search. Use after obtaining a search query to find relevant Wikipedia articles.

Action Parameters

include_context

boolean

limit

integerDefaults to 10

query

stringRequired

Action Response

data

objectRequired

error

string

successful

booleanRequired