Let's Build: Automate ANYTHING With AI Agent Teams (Step-by-Step)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Let's build an AI agent team using CrewAI for multiple real-world use cases. In part 1, we'll set up the framework for taking in a list of URLs, having our agents scrape the websites for content, and then summarizing that content. This is something I need for my newsletter. In part 2, we'll expand on that use case to make our code more robust and production-ready.
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Do you like this format of video?
What other use-cases should I cover?
Yes we like it
Love this, Matthew :)
Have you ever looked into docker for this work? I use it constantly and it helps me deploy local models + agent code to end user laptops (and servers ofc, but most of my work is HIPPA and privacy focused) 😊
If you ever want a deep dive for your content, happy to show you the ropes!
The tldr is to simply use a python docker container and bake your agent in there, and then using docker compose you can combine ollama container with GPU access + agent container. Makes it almost magically no config for the end user
While, what you have been doing creates bu!z and excitement, I truly believe we need to certainly classify, basic, intermediate level learning stuff somehow.
In basics, one must only discuss fundamentals and intermediate to provide a demo.
And I understand it takes blood to create such hour long videos.
But you are so ahead in the curve, you are best fit for the job. Guide and be the light! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Bro keep this going; recently found myself thinking
that from all the channels on the topic
I trust your message the Most.
Feels true & Authentic.
Regarding the format,
Absolutely longer video is nice
Separates you from other
News reporters.
In fact, I just watched the first
1:27 minutes, stopped.
Gotta do the due Dilligence
and follow through tomorrow
with better circumstances.
Really wanna have the together coding experience without spoilers.
Sincere gratitude to you for the great work, Matthew
Peace to AIl
Ivan
I think as a one-off it's interesting to see your thought process as you work on debugging, etc. but I wouldn't necessarily want to see this become a regular type of video. The ratio of value to the viewer to time spent watching is much lower than your other content.
Love this format - You took us all step by step including "mistakes" YAY. This is how we all learn. The mistakes not edited out makes it real and approachable. Thank You for being so helpful!
Ah ya!! 👊😎
Hello Matthew. I'm Brazilian, I live in the interior of the state of Paraná, I'm amazed by your content. Here in Brazil, particularly me, there are few people talking and explaining about the creation of AI agents by CrewAI. In fact, only a select group of enthusiasts, followers of Alan Nicolas, have the knowledge to explain this topic. But they themselves are in search of knowledge. However, it is paid content. And not everyone has access to the basics. I would like to express my gratitude for your innovative initiative. I don't know anything about English, but I'm trying my best here to learn. I use AI and Google translate, it takes time, but I think it's worth it. Please continue to make this content available, your teaching is excellent. If possible, teach me the basics and fundamentals, with your videos. Gratitude
Amigão... sou do Paraná também, entusiasta da AI, se tiver algum grupo ou algo do genero, me informe, detalhe que acho interessante é que o desenvolvedor do CrewAI aparentemente é Brasileiro....
olha os BR, sou do RS
vamos criar um grupo ou algo do genero para trocar conhecimento... @@joneslemos
Olá Milton, sou de Curitiba, se quiser trocar idéias, bora se conectar!!!
Brasil!!! kkk Bora aprender!
The question is where to invest time? At the pace things getting bombarded in AI space, sometimes i feel, wait and let it mature but at the same time i have FOMO, Who else feels the same?
Invest time in your biggest pain points, at least with every new development, it can be applied to your biggest use case.
I feel this. Definitely had a tool the boss had me build become obsolete over night. But! I still think it was valuable to do. Lots of techniques I learned along the way and getting comfortable with these "squishy" ways to get what you want is very valuable and transferrable.
Yes.
@aimademerich my friend in my 40s where I have achieved financial independence, actually there are no pain points, I just love to keep myself hands-on on latest technologies. But I have not seen anything like this.. There is hardly any structure visible atleast from learning perspective.
@@keithhanson9441 Seems like get your things done is the mantra :-).
Just want to share that Iove that you not only cover the news but you actually show us the practitioner side.
I share your videos with non-tech fam and they really appreciate your breakdowns, and you save me a lot of words 😂
This is awesome content!
This is the best example of how development is done in the age of AI I've found on YT. I like that you said you are not entirely confident in your Python skills because I'm sure a lot of us can relate; AI brought in a lot of new coders (like myself), and we're all crash coursing our way to DIY AGI.
What's more important than the final code was your chain of thought through problem solving. While most of us won't be able to FaceTime the founders of tools we're using 😜 you went to ChatGPT for the scraper. I love this format, I love the thought process, I'm always stoked to see a new video.
Live editing is a great idea! I know you like to be all together, but it would be fun and useful to debug with you
There is no better form than showing all the trials and mistakes of trying to make something work. Because if you edit out all the mistakes... no one really learns anything unless it goes perfectly. Kudos.
Hey Matthew, this is THE format. Like my maths teacher always said: you always get more credit when you show your “working out”…because it demonstrates how you reached your answer.
It’s literally GOLD. I’ve been thinking a whole day how to build it with langchain, exactly the same use case. I want to automate newsletters. Initially I created it with notion, zapier and chatGPT, but want first code approach. It’s the sign . Awesome stuff
I love this format. Could you put chapters in so it's easier to jump to the parts I'm actually using and skipping over stuff I already know? Thanks again! Great work.
I absolute love this video. These types of videos will double your subscribers by the summer, if not more. I promise you.
Man, I applaud you for this. The vulnerability is real. And it makes me much less anxious of diving deeper into code. Especially with lightning, the hassle of an environment setup and some stuff that just not works on my local Mac, is not importatnt anymore. Great stuff!
❤I can’t thank you enough for this format as well as the high-value content of all of your past videos. 🎉 As you already know, this format benefits three parties: developers can learn new stuff as you deep deeper with your tech expertise, non- tech entrepreneurs can catch up with new tech trend with even some understanding, so you will not only attract existing audience but also people who wouldn’t take a lot of time on your channel otherwise. Sorry for the obvious! 😅
You are phenomenal for this one!!! Thank you!! That IDE inclusion with this tut is everything
You are a very good teacher. That's the way coding works.
Death Vader here. I've been with you a minute.
I haven't watched this yet but it's in my schedule.
You are my freaking hero.
Thanks to Matt for showing all the processes. It took me almost an hour to finish it. Newbies to Python can see a lot of themselves in it. Matt said that he has learned Python for less than a year. According to Matt's video production rhythm, you should be very busy. Yes, thank you for sharing. Video production is not easy. Thank you for giving us many excellent tutorials.
Thank you for the clarity. All the best.
One of the coolest videos I've seen you upload so far :)
It was a great python lesson for me and the way you deal with problems is entertaining and fun.
I really think you are one of the people who contribute the most to the field of AI.
Thanks for the dark mode - please keep up 😎
Love that this project is being built real time. It's so helpful to see how other people work through all the stumbling blocks
Please do more videos like this one!
"Bill.... i've got a problem getting my windows to update..."
Great video.... this format is SO MUCH APPRECIATED as the errors you get highlight the things we all come across trying to actually create our own projects. Your troubleshooting is what we really need as examples.... not 'now pip install, blah blah' that most creators videos are.
Thank you for trying this style out and please consider doing more of them, even if its just your version of trying to duplicate some new tech Repo's example project.
It is well doing, seeing another one, playing around. This is motivating.
Hi Matt, really enjoyed your video. I liked the trial and error approach presented raw. These activities are iterative by nature, and you doing it interactively makes it so much more real than just dumping a neatly finished project. Your steps show case the effort that is needed to make these go especially for folks who understand coding in general without necessarily being experts in a specific language. Thank you for your effort and I would love to see more live coding videos.
Matthew, thanks a lot for this extensive demo. Seeing what can go wrong and seeing how you solve the problems was absolutely inspiring. Thanks!!!
The coding format, with all the re-works is awesome!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 *🏗️ Introduction to building AI teams for task accomplishment using Crew AI and Lightning AI in the cloud.*
00:27 *🔧 Explaining the use of various tools like Lang chain and custom tools in Crew AI.*
01:10 *💻 Demonstration of setting up a coding environment in the cloud using Lightning AI.*
02:16 *🤖 Initial setup for using ChatGPT with Crew AI and managing API keys.*
03:25 *🛠️ Correcting an installation mistake to ensure the latest version of Crew AI is used.*
05:12 *🗞️ Creating a Crew AI task for summarizing AI news articles for a newsletter.*
07:48 *🔄 Adjusting agent roles in Crew AI for more efficient task delegation.*
10:33 *🔍 Tweaking the scraper agent's task to more effectively retrieve and pass content.*
13:52 *🚀 Initiating a test run of the Crew AI setup and troubleshooting errors.*
16:25 *🛠️ Resolving import errors and fine-tuning the code for proper execution.*
20:30 *🤔 Adjusting the code to allow the Crew AI to receive and process multiple URLs.*
24:57 *✏️ Modifying the task code to effectively pass URLs to the agents for processing.*
26:48 *🔄 Realizing a mistake in the code related to the instantiation of the newsletter crew object.*
27:57 *🐍 Sharing personal experience in Python programming and encountering various errors while building the AI application.*
28:40 *🤖 Identifying a missing kickoff command in the newsletter crew's run process.*
29:26 *⚠️ Encountering a limitation where the AI tool cannot directly access and scrape website data.*
31:16 *🛠️ Consulting with the founder of Crew AI for troubleshooting and guidance on the project.*
32:51 *👨💻 Using string interpolation with Python variables to correctly pass URLs into AI tasks.*
34:05 *💡 Discussing potential modifications and additional use cases for the AI crew application.*
35:29 *🔨 Determining to create a custom tool for web scraping to fulfill project requirements.*
37:25 *🧰 Starting the process of developing a custom web scraping tool for the AI project.*
39:23 *🌐 Implementing web scraping in Python using libraries like requests and BeautifulSoup.*
43:10 *🛠️ Troubleshooting import errors and refining the custom scraping tool's functionality.*
46:00 *🖥️ Modifying the web scraping tool to mimic a browser for successful content retrieval.*
48:13 *📉 Encountering issues with websites blocking scraping requests and exploring alternative solutions.*
49:54 *🆗 Successfully scraping content from a different website but facing a new issue with message length limits.*
51:22 *🔎 Using HTML inspection to target specific content on web pages for scraping.*
52:31 *💻 Adjusting the scraping tool to work for a specific website, acknowledging the need for a more general solution in the future.*
53:26 *✅ Successfully scraping website content and obtaining a brief summary.*
53:57 *🛠️ Encountering an error with the scraper tool, indicating a limitation in its current implementation.*
54:24 *📃 Receiving an empty result from the AI agents, but recognizing the successful extraction and summarization of the article.*
54:37 *🚀 Considering enhancements to the AI agent system in future work and appreciating the capabilities of cloud-based development with Lightning AI.*
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It really helps to see you struggle a bit in there to get it all working for those of us learning here.
Great vid!
As a brand new python n00b, it's inspiring to see somebody more experienced than me troubleshooting through new code they're writing.
I really appreciate everything you're showing us. Thank you!
This is my absolute favorite format!! Definitely the right direction for a channel like yours.
YES! Love everything about this especially using Lightning AI and developing a solution from end to end that actually solves real problems.
This format is great. Sure you wouldn't want every video to be a long form tutorial but this is really helpful and is great when interspersed with your informative and, ahem, "shocking" ai news content. 😉
Yes, a live coding session would be awesome. This would be so useful in a system upgrade / outage and not just development
Great video format. Loved the real life tone. Sometimes we think we need to be super proficient to build our ideas into something real but videos like this show us that’s not always the case.
Make more please!
Thank you for this content! I’m really excited to dive into this
I really liked the video. It's fun to work through the problem with you and even pause and see if we come up with the same solution. I would like to see more of these from time to time, as the insight into your throught process is helpful (and reinforcing when it maps to soemthing I've also thought about).
Separately, for this problem specifically, I think setting up a personal instnace of browserless may make a lot of sense for the scrapting, especially since many of the early CrewAI scripts reference Browserless as a tool.
I like sooooo much, that you share all your debugging as well. It resonates as I have almost zero Python experience (much less than yourself) and stumbling upon such issues all the time. Interestingly, at first it was irritating, now I do not mind. Part of the process. Being able to create something and see it eventually works is greatly satisfying.
This is totally learning by doing and it's the absolute best way to learn! The way you show us your debugging process and how to solve every problem you encounter that is so incredibly valueble.. Please keep making this type of content
Yes, I like this. Going through exactly the same kind of thing we are all doing right now.
Came across your channel as I was searching AI Agents, very awesome stuff!!! I greatly appreciate your time with this! Thank you!
There is nothing braver than live-coding with a new library. Mad props.
Im very happy you made this video, I like to see how other people learn by doing and struggle on the way. 😊
Hi - This is an excellent video! Thank you for taking us step by step from "Zero". Great production & format effort. Please do more!
Your channel is an absolute blessing for this world! Legendary.
This is an awesome format - warts and all! Really appreciate it. Feels like pair programming. Saved me a bunch of time.
🤫 Good one. Matt, thank you for showing how AI works. Keep going. 🌹👏👏
this format is great. please keep them coming if/when you have time. thanks
Great video format Matthew, thank you for being open and sharing the steps.
I like this how to video. It's nice to text new as i releases but building is far more interesting then simply texting the limits of new ai releases. Love your stuff in general. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
Looks great. It also looks like programmers are going to have jobs for a while longer. They are just going to need to retrain for new architechures, methods, and syntax. Of course new AIs will be there to help them transition.
Imagine how well the process of getting your CrewAI app to work would flow if AIs could reason.
Yes, ChatGPT wasn't even able to help Mat out. AI will need some further improvements to replace coders.
You are great man, you gave me confidence, I've always taught that I lack to much in my python skills but seeing you struggling with it to and still making it work gave me confidence!
Thank you for this tutorial video. From this I came to know about different types of crewai inbuilt tools which will be helpful to make different projects. In other's videos they are using different apis for this tools.
Live coding would be amazing. The one thing about the video that I love is bumping into errors. It's encouraging to me being a very novice coder to know that errors are a normal part of the process. Let's jam!
This was fantastic! I have written a webscrapper with AutoGen and it was a total b*^ch... It made me feel better that I wasnt the only one who has had some difficulty getting one functioning.
00:02 Setting up CrewAI for task automation with native and custom tools.
02:04 Setting up and using CrewAI for real-world tasks
07:04 Automating real-world tasks with CrewAI
10:18 Task 1: Scrape and provide content to writer
16:22 Importing tools from CrewAI and exploring examples.
18:56 Automating real-world tasks with Python code
24:33 Automating task by passing it into the task company.
27:11 Troubleshooting and resolving errors in Python code
31:51 Struggling to pass URLs into stock analysis tool
34:05 Discussing the use of website search tool and potential need for website scraping
38:34 Creating a website scraping tool using Python
41:01 Integrating code and addressing potential issues
46:04 Using third party tools and services to scrape websites
48:40 Struggling with complex scraping blockers and open AI's maximum context length issue
54:05 Lightning AI makes tasks easy in the cloud.
Best video ever! Beats all the videos that shows perfect codes hands down.
Great video, but FYI: "RC" in a semantic version number stands for "Release Candidate" not "Release Client".
Matt, again, thank you for all of this!
You are doing great job you update us with AI I hope you get 1 million subscribers very soon 🌹
Good video we like it keep it up upload videos like this man lit 🔥
Yes, I like the live build format, thanks for presenting it.
I have been working on similar AI code and getting mixed results. The struggle is real, keep up the good work.
Automating my life sounds awesome but I'll probably just end up more lazy.
The agents didn’t ‘SHOCK THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY ‘?! What a miracle ✌🏼
this vedio showed me programmers are needed after all when mattew said i will make chatgpt writes code
when you are programmer it makes a difference
Bro called the founder to show him how to do string interpolation xD
Great video! Awesome!🎉🎉🎉
Really liked this long-form tutorial/Let's Build
I just give a thumbs up automatically on new content before clicking play. I know it’s gonna be good anyways
Great stuff. Would love to see an example of using Autogen to correlate or extract subsets of data from CSVs, such as GA Reports and Search Console Reports.
I like your style buddy.. you explain things pretty good and you have a large variety on your channel. You look a little bit like pauly shore
Human coding isn't dead. You just proved it.
I had SO many issues with web scraping, I was practically shouting at the screen "No, not that way!" 😆 It's one of those use cases where with experience you know what will and won't work and exactly how brittle your solution will end up whatever approach you finally rest on - I think it's one of the best arguments for an R1-type model rather than an LLM getting fed source code etc. It raises the point... will all these web platforms ignore our intentional breach of their TOS via automation? Seems like a 'last stand' nobody's talking about yet... The scarping and 'brittleness' issue is one reason why I'm currently leaning toward using Autogen Studio and their 'skills' approach instead - it might be okay for the skills code to be brittle and get evolved when it inevitably breaks, with that kind of modularity built in, much like how e.g. Zapier updates the tehcnicalities of how their building blocks work in the background as issues arise, and your automations/flows don't need changing fundamentally (usually!)
just saw this drop! looking forward to this one, always was frustrated when your demos just set things up when I ran into issues afterward. I was following your superagi tutorial but it doesnt work right now cause the repository isnt being updated, so I had to manually merge the bug fixes then deploy and its working now
Thanks so much, this was exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts process.
Have the same use case (weekly AI newsletter in German): currently I'm using a Perplexity collection with custom instruction set to create a summary of a website. Perplexity does a great job on this as I'm not dealing with token issues or blocking scrappers. But the Perplexity API doesn't support calling my collection "GPT". So the process here is broken.
Looking forward to see your progress with this use case 😊
I want to see live editing.
Great video !!!! really helpfull
How do you get that green circle on your mouse pointer? It looks useful for reading
You have the best content!
Awesome video - let’s go deeper
Loved it, no complaints, we live in mistakes, its good to see them, it helps eliminate some of the "fear of starting". ...However, I wonder if there is some way you can do a video that is good to listen to on dog walks .. Something that does not require us watching the screen (e.g. Interview). Maybe more theory .. That would be a good "mix up", and are fine to be long.
I really appreciate this video. Thank you Sir!
can anyone help me find the documentation?
thanks!
if you are going to extract a specific element from the html perhaps the websearch tool is what you should have used
Funny part is I got stuck in the same part but I misplaced the Founders #. Thanks for helping with that 😂!
Hi Matthew, thanks for posting this video, very helpful. I'm interested in using agents and want to invest some time in a framework but don't understand enough (yet) about the different frameworks. Autogen is the other framework that gets a lot of mentions. Could you please help me understand why I would choose CrewAI over Autogen and visa versa? Thanks in advance.
Great and thanks for this demo that shows also the pitfalls and how to get rid of them. Did you know that VSCode has the "Live Share" plugin (Microsoft) that allows co-editing in our local vscode, with others in using their vscode? Same as what you shown with this cloud based editor (good to know this one too).
Great video Matthew! When trying to hook up langchain/groq instead of OpenAI I ran into an issue. Even though I do not call it at all, I am asked for an OpenAI API key. I only have a free account at OpenAI at the moment, plus I don't even want to use OpenAI. Did you run into this issue as well when hooking it up to a different LLM?
Thanks Matthew for the great content. Please, do you have some step by step guide as I have some difficulties in finding the correct text to copy into the documentation? Kind regards,
Great stuff!
Could this be used as an email scraper? Like being able to define parameters for scouring through years of accumulated email to get rid of the crap and keep the stuff that isn't crap?
Incredibly good video, I like it.
Thank you.
You said you'd share the code. Where can I find it?
Thanks for all your work!
Oh shoot! I forgot. I’ll share it now.
Huge Thank You!
VS Code can also be set to save automatically, so there will be no need for CTRL+S :)
Trying to follow you. Never used all this software before. Took me some time to figure out what you use. I now have Visual studio Code + python 3.12 and 3.11.8, but crewai0.14.0rc cannot be installed (wrong python version). installed most recent crewai, but on execution of the script it cannot find modue crewai. Path seems correct and pip list gives it. Stuck here.
great topic, thanks 👍
your videos are awesome Matt :=)
Adapting the code to use ollama is super easy. I'm running it now.
Did you come up with a more generic web scraper tool. The version in your git hub is still hardcoded to work with that one site.
wow 55 minutes. what a gem