Web Scraping
Domain: Tools & Function Calling
🎯 Motivation
Extracting data from web pages. A tool that parses HTML to pull out specific information.
📋 Concrete Example
Agent scrapes a news site: extract all headlines and dates. Returns: [(‘AI Breakthrough’, ‘2025-08-03’), (‘New Phone Released’, ‘2025-08-02’)]. Structured data from unstructured web pages.
🔗 Analogy
Clipping newspaper articles - you cut out articles you want and paste them in a scrapbook. Web scraping does this digitally: extracting specific information from web pages.