Scrape a conference site into a searchable dashboard
Documented elsewhere: in a workshop demo, a Manus agent scraped a whole conference website of about 70 talks. It pulled out dates, times and descriptions, and converted every time to UTC. The demo produced a working dashboard covering the 70-plus talks.
- Agent or tool
- Manus
- Topic
- Personal Assistant
- Reported on
- Blog
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
This is the classic promise of AI agents: a helper that handles errands and reminders on your behalf. Real cases like this show how close that promise is today. It is one of 50 sightings filed under Personal Assistant on Agent Sightings (number 24 by interest), and one of 22 involving Manus.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Manus or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Assistant mode: scrape a conference site into a searchable dashboard. Log every action, prefer reversible steps, and ask before emailing, paying, or deleting.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog: https://growwstacks.com/blog/how-to-build-intelligent-research-agents-with-manu…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.