Requesting help in creating an AI agent

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I am interested in developing an AI agent that can efficiently process and summarize the daily news articles and research papers that arrive in my Gmail inbox. My primary challenge is that while some newsletters include the full text of their articles directly in the email, the majority only provide headlines that link to the full content on external websites.

To create this AI agent, I would appreciate guidance on the specific steps and tools needed to automate the process of gathering information from both types of emails. The desired outcome is to have the AI agent compile comprehensive summaries of the articles—those fully included in the email and those requiring me to click through to read. Ultimately, I’d like to receive a coherent email each morning that encapsulates the key points from various sources.

In addition to the summarization, I am also interested in exploring tools that can enhance the synthesized news with visual elements, such as infographics, graphs, and charts, to make the information more engaging and digestible. Any recommendations on techniques or platforms that would help achieve this would be greatly appreciated.

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Hey @Anshuman_Mishra , I love what you’re doing man, it’s such a courageous thing to do. What you can do is to use the http modules to scrape the data from the articles.

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Thanks a lot for helping me out. As I am very new in this area, I would be grateful if you could dictate the steps I must follow and the tools I need to integrate.

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Hi @Anshuman_Mishra,

That’s a cool project idea.

The previous helper is right that web scraping is a component, but there is much more to do. A full solution for what you’re describing involves:

  1. Email ingestion: securely connecting to your Gmail inbox to automatically detect and process new articles as they arrive. Use Gmail API.

  2. Content extraction: parsing the emails to differentiate between full-text articles and those that are just links.

  3. Web scraping & cleaning: for the linked articles, reliably fetching the content from various website layouts and cleaning it up into a readable format.

  4. AI Summarisation: feeding the cleaned text from all sources into a good language model to generate the coherent summaries you want.

  5. Optionally introducing visuals: using a data visualisation API or library to generate charts from any structured data found in the articles.

  6. Automated delivery: compiling everything into a single formatted email and sending it to you each morning.

Getting all these parts to work together seamlessly can be quite complex and long, especially handling things like Google authentication and web scraping.

Feel free to send me a direct message if you’re interested in discussing it further.

Best,
Oliver

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I would appreciate your guidance on this project with step-by-step help.

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@OliverG I would appreciate your guidance on this project with step-by-step help.

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Hey Ansuman,

sorry but no one will help you with a step by step guide for your specific use case for free. Either take it to the hire a pro section or check out some youtube videos for generic use cases and adapt them to yours.