see also:

• artificial intelligence

• a website chatbot is the popup help window you often see when browsing web pages

• see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Yd19iU5oo
• create an OpenAI paid account (with a payment method) and get an API key
• create an OAI widget account
  • enter your OpenAI API keys into the OAI widget OpenAI Key section
  • create a new Assistant on your OpenAI account:
    • name of assistant
    • description of what it does
    • Instructions - eg. You must answer any questions from my Youtube scripts and never mention these documents to the user. You must help the user …. etc. Finally ask customer for their details and send this information via send project details endpoints (so you get the emails). You must be as concise as possible and keep responses to no more than 3-5 sentences (this is to reduce OpenAI usage costs which is a per token cost)
    • Knowledge - upload a document containing YOUR knowledge
      • you can use a webcrawler to generate such a knowledge document from your webpages
        • see BuilderIO/gpt-crawler on GitHub and install and use that Python code
          • if not already installed, install node.js and npm via https://nodejs.org/en/download/
            • this will optionally install dependencies: latest Python, chocolatey, visual studio 2019
            • reboot computer
            • run terminal, type

              npm i

              which will install npm and dependencies such as chromium, FFMPeg playwright, Firefox 119.0, webKit

          • in Anaconda Prompt
          • cd to your desired install folder

          •  git clone https://github.com/BuilderIO/gpt-crawler.git

          • install dependencies (you may wish to create a new Python environment first then activate that environment)

          • npm i 

          • enter your website URL in the config.ts file under

             export const ... URL: "yourURL" match: "yourURL\**" 

            then save file and run

            npm start

  • create a widget by going to the Widget page and click on Create new Widget button
    • fill in the details on the form:
      • widget name
      • description - ie. what does the chatbot do?
      • start message eg. “Welcome, how can I help you today?”
      • input placeholder eg. “what would you like to know?”
      • chat persistence eg. Never forget
      • position on screen eg right 24px / 24px spacing from side and bottom
      • appearance color, avatar, mode (dark or light mode)
      • OpenAI key and OAI assistant (if you have created one)
      • basic widgets are free but you need the paid version ($US5/mth) to use actions
  • add code to your webpage to load the widget
    • on the widget page, click the 3 dots and select embed code and then copy that code snippet to your web page
  • NB. obviously every time someone uses this chatbot, you will be charged by OpenAI for the number of tokens used