Geek Out Time: Trying newly released OpenAI’s Responses API with Web Search Tool in Google Colab

OpenAI recently introduced the Web Search Tool as part of its Responses API, ( https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/ ) allowing AI models to search the web, retrieve real-time information, and summarize it.

For those of us who have been using Selenium in Google Colab to automate searches and extract insights, this new approach is a faster, more seamless experience for AI-driven research and knowledge retrieval.

So, I had to try out OpenAI’s new Responses API with Web Search Tool in Google Colab, and then compare it with the traditional Selenium approach.

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