crewai-plasmate

provenance:github:plasmate-labs/crewai-plasmate

WHAT THIS AGENT DOES

This agent helps AI systems access and understand information from websites. It acts like a smart web browser, but instead of just grabbing raw website code, it extracts the key meaning and structure of the page. This significantly reduces the amount of data the AI needs to process, saving time and money. Businesses and researchers who rely on AI to gather and analyze online information would find this tool valuable. It’s particularly useful when dealing with large volumes of web content, as it makes the process much more efficient.

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# crewai-plasmate

Plasmate web browsing tool for CrewAI agents. Get clean semantic page content using 10-16x fewer tokens than Chrome.

## Install

```bash
pip install crewai-plasmate
```

## Usage

```python
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew
from crewai_plasmate import PlasmateFetchTool

researcher = Agent(role="Researcher", tools=[PlasmateFetchTool()])
task = Task(description="Fetch https://example.com and summarize it", agent=researcher)
Crew(agents=[researcher], tasks=[task]).kickoff()
```

## What is Plasmate?

[Plasmate](https://plasmate.dev) is a lightweight web browsing engine for AI agents. It returns a Semantic Object Model (SOM) instead of raw HTML, reducing token usage by 10-16x compared to headless Chrome.

## Links

- [Plasmate Documentation](https://plasmate.dev)
- [W3C Web Agents Community Group](https://www.w3.org/community/web-agents/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/nicobailey/plasmate)

## License

Apache 2.0


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## Part of the Plasmate Ecosystem

| | |
|---|---|
| **Engine** | [plasmate](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/plasmate) - The browser engine for agents |
| **MCP** | [plasmate-mcp](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/plasmate-mcp) - Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf |
| **Extension** | [plasmate-extension](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/plasmate-extension) - Chrome cookie export |
| **SDKs** | [Python](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/plasmate-python) / [Node.js](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/quickstart-node) / [Go](https://docs.plasmate.app/sdk-go) / [Rust](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/quickstart-rust) |
| **Frameworks** | [LangChain](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/36208) / [CrewAI](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/crewai-plasmate) / [AutoGen](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/autogen-plasmate) / [Smolagents](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/smolagents-plasmate) |
| **Tools** | [Scrapy](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/scrapy-plasmate) / [Audit](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/plasmate-audit) / [A11y](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/plasmate-a11y) / [GitHub Action](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/som-action) |
| **Resources** | [Awesome Plasmate](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/awesome-plasmate) / [Notebooks](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/notebooks) / [Benchmarks](https://github.com/plasmate-labs/plasmate-benchmarks) |
| **Docs** | [docs.plasmate.app](https://docs.plasmate.app) |
| **W3C** | [Web Content Browser for AI Agents](https://www.w3.org/community/web-content-browser-ai/) |

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