Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?
2 days ago
- #Web Scraping
- #AI Automation
- #Playwright
- Skyvern can now write and maintain its own code, making it 2.7x cheaper and 2.3x faster.
- Skyvern is an open-source tool that automates browser tasks using AI, serving both technical and non-technical users.
- The tool helps with tasks like job applications, invoice fetching, government form filling, and online purchases.
- Skyvern's new feature allows it to compile reasoning into code, reducing reliance on expensive LLM calls.
- Challenges include ambiguous automation requirements and the messy nature of the internet.
- Reasoning models improve agent accuracy and enable the generation of maintainable code.
- Skyvern operates in two modes: Explore (learning navigation) and Replay (executing deterministic code).
- The tool captures intent metadata to handle page shifts and recover from failures.
- Performance improvements include faster run times (2.3x), lower costs (2.7x), and deterministic runs.
- Use cases include invoice downloading, purchasing, data extraction, and government form filling.
- Future enhancements include analyzing groups of runs, caching data extractions, and SDK integration.