Autogen app for web search and document search built on FastApi backend and React frontend

This is a simple implementation of Autogen Agents using FastApi as backend and a frontend client using React

1. FastApi Backend: A FastApi application running autogen.
2. Webapp: React webapp using websocket to communicate with FastApi.

Running demo

1. Clone this repo

git clone
cd autogen-app

2. Configure backend

Configure python deps

cd backend
pip install -r ./requirements.txt 

Add your Openai key to .env inside src folder

cd backend/src (edit .env and add your key)

Start backend server inside src folder

python main.py

You should see

INFO:     Started server process [85614]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

2. Configure frontend

Open a new terminal and go to the react-frontend folder (you need to have nodejs installed and npm >= v14 )

cd autogenwebdemo/react-frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Open you browser on http://localhost:5173/ or the port shown

Web Search: Try doing a web search by typing "What are the top news in AI today?"

Groupchat: if you want to use Groupchat take a look at autogen_group_chat.py