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Web Scraping Agent with CrewAI

Build an intelligent web scraping agent that fetches pages, extracts structured data, and handles pagination — powered by CrewAI.

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Working Code

CrewAI
from crewai import Agent, Crew, Task
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
from langchain_core.tools import tool
@tool
def fetch_url(url: str) -> str:
"""Fetch a webpage and return its content as markdown."""
import httpx
from markdownify import markdownify
response = httpx.get(url, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"}, timeout=15)
return markdownify(response.text)[:5000]
@tool
def extract_data(text: str, instruction: str) -> str:
"""Extract structured data from text based on instruction."""
# Uses the LLM itself to parse — no regex needed
return f"Extracting from {len(text)} chars: {instruction}"
agent = Agent(
role="Specialist",
goal="You are a web scraping agent. Fetch pages, extract the requested data, and return it in structured format. Respect robots.txt.",
tools=[fetch_url, extract_data],
llm=ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o"),
)
task = Task(
description="Scrape the pricing page at example.com/pricing and extract all plan names and prices",
expected_output="Detailed response",
agent=agent,
)
crew = Crew(agents=[agent], tasks=[task])
result = crew.kickoff()
print(result.raw)

Step by Step

1

Install dependencies

Install CrewAI and the required tools for this use case.

2

Define your tools

Create the domain-specific tool functions your agent will use to interact with external services.

3

Create the agent and run

Initialize the CrewAI agent with your tools, set the system prompt, and execute a query.

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