[GH-ISSUE #3318] [FEAT]: Agent Skill - Scrape Websites option to not summarise #2134

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opened 2026-02-22 18:28:17 -05:00 by yindo · 1 comment
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Originally created by @CaffiendDevKit on GitHub (Feb 22, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/issues/3318

Originally assigned to: @shatfield4 on GitHub.

Version

Docker Hub - Latest - I guess v1.7.4

What would you like to see?

I am trying to follow the Agent Flows Tutorial but the web scraper or the agent always summarizes the HTML. This causes all the links to be the same and invalid.

It would be nice to have an explicit option to tell it to pass the raw scrapped content to the next block.

I even tried with the API Call block and the content was also summarized.

I attempted to alter the agent description to tell it to not summarize large responses but that didn't seem to make a difference.

Additionally I noticed that even when looking at a small return less than 100 tokens it would still attempt to summarize saying it was too large. So it appears to be a hard coded step.

The "summarized" output, note all links are iterated from item?id=123456 and other changes such as the user.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Hacker News</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css">
</head>
<body>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span>1.</span>
                <a href="https://www.example.com">Example Title</a>
                <span>(123 points)</span>
                <span>by <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exampleuser">exampleuser</a> 1 hour ago</span>
                <span>| <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123456">123 comments</a></span>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span>2.</span>
                <a href="https://www.example.com">Deep Dive into Llama3 AI Model</a>
                <span>(90 points)</span>
                <span>by <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exampleuser">exampleuser</a> 2 hours ago</span>
                <span>| <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123457">90 comments</a></span>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <span>3.</span>
                <a href="https://www.example.com">AI Accumulating Wealth</a>
                <span>(78 points)</span>
                <span>by <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exampleuser">exampleuser</a> 3 hours ago</span>
                <span>| <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123458">78 comments</a></span>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <!-- more table rows with submission information -->
    </table>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/more">more</a>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>
Originally created by @CaffiendDevKit on GitHub (Feb 22, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/issues/3318 Originally assigned to: @shatfield4 on GitHub. ### Version Docker Hub - Latest - I guess v1.7.4 ### What would you like to see? I am trying to follow the [Agent Flows Tutorial ](https://docs.anythingllm.com/agent-flows/tutorial-hackernews) but the web scraper or the agent always summarizes the HTML. This causes all the links to be the same and invalid. It would be nice to have an explicit option to tell it to pass the raw scrapped content to the next block. I even tried with the API Call block and the content was also summarized. I attempted to alter the agent description to tell it to not summarize large responses but that didn't seem to make a difference. Additionally I noticed that even when looking at a small return less than 100 tokens it would still attempt to summarize saying it was too large. So it appears to be a hard coded step. The "summarized" output, note all links are iterated from `item?id=123456` and other changes such as the user. ```html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Hacker News</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css"> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td> <span>1.</span> <a href="https://www.example.com">Example Title</a> <span>(123 points)</span> <span>by <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exampleuser">exampleuser</a> 1 hour ago</span> <span>| <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123456">123 comments</a></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>2.</span> <a href="https://www.example.com">Deep Dive into Llama3 AI Model</a> <span>(90 points)</span> <span>by <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exampleuser">exampleuser</a> 2 hours ago</span> <span>| <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123457">90 comments</a></span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>3.</span> <a href="https://www.example.com">AI Accumulating Wealth</a> <span>(78 points)</span> <span>by <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exampleuser">exampleuser</a> 3 hours ago</span> <span>| <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123458">78 comments</a></span> </td> </tr> <!-- more table rows with submission information --> </table> <table> <tr> <td> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/more">more</a> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> ```
yindo added the enhancementfeature request labels 2026-02-22 18:28:17 -05:00
yindo closed this issue 2026-02-22 18:28:17 -05:00
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@timothycarambat commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2025):

This is a good point, the tool should not interpret the text, even if large, since that is out of scope for the block and the data should be handed off the next block as raw output based on findings.

@timothycarambat commented on GitHub (Feb 22, 2025): This is a good point, the tool should not interpret the text, even if large, since that is out of scope for the block and the data should be handed off the next block as raw output based on findings.
yindo changed title from [FEAT]: Agent Skill - Scrape Websites option to not summarise to [GH-ISSUE #3318] [FEAT]: Agent Skill - Scrape Websites option to not summarise 2026-06-05 14:44:45 -04:00
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Reference: Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm#2134