webscraping.py

import autogen

# Configuration from JSON or environment variables
config_list = autogen.config_list_from_json("OAI_CONFIG_LIST")
llm_config = {"config_list": config_list}

# Define the AssistantAgent for generating Python scripts
assistant = autogen.AssistantAgent(name="assistant", llm_config=llm_config)

# Define the UserProxyAgent to execute scripts
user_proxy = autogen.UserProxyAgent(
    name="user_proxy",
    human_input_mode="TERMINATE",  # The user proxy will not wait for human input
    code_execution_config={
        "work_dir": "web_scraping",
        "use_docker": False  # Use Docker for secure execution
    },
    llm_config=llm_config
)

# Example task to scrape data
task_message = "Scrape the latest financial news articles from a given URL."

# Start the process by initiating a chat with the assistant
user_proxy.initiate_chat(
    assistant,
    message=task_message
)

# Assistant needs to be set up to handle creating the Python script for web scraping
# Assuming assistant is programmed to generate the scraping script in response to tasks