You can find an example in this notebook: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_web_info.ipynb

Let me know if you need further help!

For structured product data specifically, BuyWhere MCP gives agents access to real product catalogs — names, prices, categories. Could complement web scraping for shopping/commerce agent use cases. They are running a challenge at buywhere.ai/challenge with API credits for winners.

Yes, but it is better to think of this as tool access, not as something the agent should magically do by itself.

There are three common patterns:

1. Search or HTTP fetch tool
   Best when the agent only needs to answer questions from current web pages or APIs. Give the agent a narrow tool such as search_web(query) or fetch_url(url), then have it cite the URLs it used.

2. Browser automation tool
   Best when the agent needs to click, fill forms, navigate multi-step pages, or inspect rendered JavaScript pages. This is heavier and should have stricter limits: allowed domains, timeout, max pages, no credential reuse unless explicitly approved.

3. Dedicated researcher agent
   In a multi-agent setup, I would normally give web access to only one agent, for example WebResearcher, and keep the planner/writer/reviewer agents without direct web tools. That makes the workflow easier to audit because all web evidence enters through one controlled role.

A safe pattern is:

User task
-> planner decides whether web evidence is needed
-> web-enabled researcher searches/fetches pages
-> researcher returns short notes + source URLs
-> writer/reviewer uses only those notes and citations

For production use, I would add:

• domain allowlist or blocklist,
• request timeout and max-result limits,
• no arbitrary downloads by default,
• source URL logging,
• page-content sanitization before sending content back into the agent,
• a rule that the final answer distinguishes fetched facts from model reasoning.

So the short answer is: yes, give the agent a web/search/browser tool, but scope it as an explicit capability and log what it accessed.