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Date Published
Author
Antonello Zanini
Word count
3044
Language
English
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Summary

Agno is a full-stack Python framework designed for building sophisticated AI agents that leverage memory, knowledge, and advanced reasoning, making it ideal for creating agentic workflows. It is particularly effective for web scraping, a process traditionally hampered by frequent site structure changes, by integrating with Bright Data tools to efficiently extract data from websites. Agno allows for the development of both standalone AI scraping agents and complex multi-agent systems, overcoming challenges such as bot defenses and data format issues. The framework supports multi-modal inputs and outputs, complex orchestration, and session handling, and has gained significant popularity, evidenced by its 29k stars on GitHub. By using Agno's integration with Bright Data, users can create web scraping agents capable of accessing fresh, structured data from any website, while the integration with language models like Gemini enhances the analysis and interpretation of the retrieved data. This setup not only simplifies the scraping process but also paves the way for advanced use cases like agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and allows for the development of user-friendly interfaces for broader accessibility.