LLM Web Browsing

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By combining headless browser automation tools with LLMs, you can create an agent that can navigate to websites. This opens up all sorts of new capabilities like scraping and summarizing web content.

What works well?

  • Going to a news website and extracting a list of articles
  • OpenAI gpt-4 works better than gpt-3 when using langchain to prompt to get headlines (e.g. asking for the top headlines on HackerNews gpt-3 fails without some hints about the HTML structure while gpt-4 works in one shot)

What doesn’t work well?

  • Large web pages will hit the context limit for language models
  • Logging into a website doesn’t work because OpenAI will reject completion requests that contain sensitive data

What else have others tried?