BrowserGym: a Gym Environment for Web Task Automation

[Setup] [Usage] [Demo] [Citation]

This package provides browsergym, a gym environment for web task automation in the Chromium browser.

https://github.com/ServiceNow/BrowserGym/assets/26232819/e0bfc788-cc8e-44f1-b8c3-0d1114108b85

Example of a GPT4-V agent executing openended tasks (top row, chat interactive), as well as WebArena and WorkArena tasks (bottom row)

BrowserGym includes the following benchmarks by default:

• MiniWob++
• WebArena
• VisualWebArena
• WorkArena

Designing new web benchmarks with BrowserGym is easy, and simply requires to inherit the AbstractBrowserTask class.

Setup

To install browsergym, you can either install one of the browsergym-miniwob, browsergym-webarena, browsergym-visualwebarena and browsergym-workarena packages, or you can simply install browsergym which includes all of these by default.

pip install browsergym

Then, a required step is to setup playwright by running

playwright install chromium

Finally, each benchmark comes with its own specific setup that requires to follow additional steps.

• for miniwob, see miniwob/README.md
• for webarena, see webarena/README.md
• for visualwebarena, see visualwebarena/README.md
• for workarena, see WorkArena

Development setup

To install browsergym locally for development, use the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/ServiceNow/BrowserGym.git
cd BrowserGym
make install

Usage

Open-ended task example

Boilerplate code to run an agent on an interactive, open-ended task:

import gymnasium as gym
import browsergym.core  # register the openended task as a gym environment

env = gym.make(
    "browsergym/openended",
    task_kwargs={"start_url": "https://www.google.com/"},  # starting URL
    wait_for_user_message=True,  # wait for a user message after each agent message sent to the chat
)
obs, info = env.reset()
done = False
while not done:
    action = ...  # implement your agent here
    obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action)
    done = terminated or truncated

MiniWoB++ task example

Boilerplate code to run an agent on a MiniWoB++ task:

import gymnasium as gym
import browsergym.miniwob  # register miniwob tasks as gym environments

env = gym.make("browsergym/miniwob.choose-list")
obs, info = env.reset()
done = False
while not done:
    action = ...  # implement your agent here
    obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action)
    done = terminated or truncated

To list all the available MiniWoB++ environments run

env_ids = [id for id in gym.envs.registry.keys() if id.startswith("browsergym/miniwob")]
print("\n".join(env_ids))

WebArena task example

Boilerplate code to run an agent on a WebArena task:

import gymnasium as gym
import browsergym.webarena  # register webarena tasks as gym environments

env = gym.make("browsergym/webarena.310")
obs, info = env.reset()
done = False
while not done:
    action = ...  # implement your agent here
    obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action)
    done = terminated or truncated

To list all the available WebArena environments run

env_ids = [id for id in gym.envs.registry.keys() if id.startswith("browsergym/webarena")]
print("\n".join(env_ids))

VisualWebArena task example

Boilerplate code to run an agent on a VisualWebArena task:

import gymnasium as gym
import browsergym.webarena  # register webarena tasks as gym environments

env = gym.make("browsergym/webarena.721")
obs, info = env.reset()
done = False
while not done:
    action = ...  # implement your agent here
    obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action)
    done = terminated or truncated

To list all the available VisualWebArena environments run

env_ids = [id for id in gym.envs.registry.keys() if id.startswith("browsergym/visualwebarena")]
print("\n".join(env_ids))

WorkArena task example

Boilerplate code to run an agent on a WorkArena task:

import gymnasium as gym
import browsergym.workarena  # register workarena tasks as gym environments

env = gym.make("browsergym/workarena.servicenow.order-ipad-pro")
obs, info = env.reset()
done = False
while not done:
    action = ...  # implement your agent here
    obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action)
    done = terminated or truncated

To list all the available WorkArena environments run

env_ids = [id for id in gym.envs.registry.keys() if id.startswith("browsergym/workarena")]
print("\n".join(env_ids))

Demo

If you want to experiment with an agent in BrowserGym, follow these steps:

cd demo-agent
conda env create -f environment.yml; conda activate demo-agent
# or simply use `pip install -r requirements.txt`
playwright install chromium

Optional: Set your OPENAI_API_KEY to use a GPT agent.

Launch the demo on the open web:

python run_demo.py --task_name openended --start_url https://www.google.com

You can customize your experience by changing the model_name to your preferred LLM, toggling Chain-of-thought with use_thinking, adding screenshots for your VLMs with use_screenshot, and much more!

Citing This Work

Please use the following BibTeX to cite our work:

@inproceedings{workarena2024,
    title = {{W}ork{A}rena: How Capable are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?},
    author = {Drouin, Alexandre and Gasse, Maxime and Caccia, Massimo and Laradji, Issam H. and Del Verme, Manuel and Marty, Tom and Vazquez, David and Chapados, Nicolas and Lacoste, Alexandre},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning},
    pages = {11642--11662},
    year = {2024},
    editor = {Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Kolter, Zico and Heller, Katherine and Weller, Adrian and Oliver, Nuria and Scarlett, Jonathan and Berkenkamp, Felix},
    volume = {235},
    series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
    month = {21--27 Jul},
    publisher = {PMLR},
    url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/drouin24a.html},
}