tools/visit_webpage.py

from typing import Any, Optional
from smolagents.tools import Tool
import requests
import re
import markdownify

class VisitWebpageTool(Tool):
    name = "visit_webpage"
    description = "Visits a webpage at the given url and reads its content as a markdown string. Use this to browse webpages."
    inputs = {'url': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'The url of the webpage to visit.'}}
    output_type = "string"

    def __init__(self, max_output_length: int = 40000):
        super().__init__()
        self.max_output_length = max_output_length

    def _truncate_content(self, content: str, max_length: int) -> str:
        if len(content) <= max_length:
            return content
        return (
            content[: max_length // 2]
            + f"\n..._This content has been truncated to stay below {max_length} characters_...\n"
            + content[-max_length // 2 :]
        )

    def forward(self, url: str) -> str:
        try:
            import re

            import requests
            from markdownify import markdownify
            from requests.exceptions import RequestException
        except ImportError as e:
            raise ImportError(
                "You must install packages `markdownify` and `requests` to run this tool: for instance run `pip install markdownify requests`."
            ) from e
        try:
            # Send a GET request to the URL with a 20-second timeout
            response = requests.get(url, timeout=20)
            response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an exception for bad status codes

            # Convert the HTML content to Markdown
            markdown_content = markdownify(response.text).strip()

            # Remove multiple line breaks
            markdown_content = re.sub(r"\n{3,}", "\n\n", markdown_content)

            return self._truncate_content(markdown_content, self.max_output_length)

        except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
            return "The request timed out. Please try again later or check the URL."
        except RequestException as e:
            return f"Error fetching the webpage: {str(e)}"
        except Exception as e:
            return f"An unexpected error occurred: {str(e)}"