How to add knowledge to your GPTs with Website Content Crawler

Summary

In this video, Theo from Apify demonstrates how to enhance custom GPTs by uploading a knowledge base using Apify’s Website Content Crawler. Custom GPTs streamline processes by embedding specific instructions, eliminating repetitive tasks. By uploading documentation, like Crawlee’s, users can ensure their GPTs provide more accurate, reliable answers. Theo walks viewers through scraping web content, extracting it in JSON format, and uploading it to a GPT for improved performance. The tutorial encourages viewers to experiment with Apify Actors to build their own custom GPTs and share them with the community.

Takeaways

• 😀 Custom GPTs allow users to streamline processes by embedding specific instructions, making repeated tasks easier.
• 😀 Uploading a knowledge base to a custom GPT improves its accuracy and reliability, particularly for specialized tasks.
• 😀 Apify’s Website Content Crawler can scrape web data and clean it for use in training GPTs, ensuring only relevant information is included.
• 😀 Custom GPTs work like 'prompt shortcuts,' eliminating the need to repeat instructions each time you interact with the model.
• 😀 Using uploaded knowledge, such as documentation, allows GPTs to provide more accurate answers compared to relying solely on web browsing.
• 😀 The Website Content Crawler is an Apify Actor designed to collect and process web data, ideal for feeding into vector databases and training language models.
• 😀 Website Content Crawler can quickly scrape and download web data in formats like JSON, making it easy to upload to your custom GPT.
• 😀 Choosing the right crawler type, such as the 'Cheerio' crawler, ensures fast extraction without dealing with JavaScript client-side rendering.
• 😀 Apify’s Website Content Crawler removes unnecessary data like fluff and duplicates, leaving only useful content for the GPT to process.
• 😀 The tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to using Website Content Crawler, including setting it up on Apify Console and downloading data.
• 😀 Apify encourages users to explore and share their custom GPTs created with Apify Actors, fostering a community of shared tools and solutions.

Q & A

What is the main purpose of creating a custom GPT?

The main purpose of creating a custom GPT is to streamline processes by providing specific instructions, allowing you to avoid repeating the same prompt every time and making the GPT better suited to your particular use case.

How does a custom GPT improve efficiency compared to using GPT-4's default capabilities?

A custom GPT allows you to embed instructions directly, ensuring that it remembers the context and specific details, reducing the need to repeat commands. This makes it more efficient than using GPT-4's default web browsing capabilities, which may sometimes provide unreliable or less targeted responses.

What role does uploading a knowledge base play in enhancing a custom GPT?

Uploading a knowledge base to a custom GPT, like documentation, ensures that the model has reliable and relevant information to refer to when generating responses. This improves the accuracy and reliability of the GPT's answers.

Why is uploading documentation important for a GPT designed to answer technical questions?

Uploading documentation ensures that the GPT can refer to authoritative and accurate sources when answering technical questions. Without this, the GPT might rely on less reliable data from web browsing, leading to potential inaccuracies.

What tool is demonstrated in the video for scraping and uploading web data to a custom GPT?

The tool demonstrated in the video is the Website Content Crawler, which is an Apify Actor designed for scraping and processing web data to feed into GPTs for more accurate responses.

How does Website Content Crawler help in scraping data for custom GPTs?

Website Content Crawler helps by efficiently scraping data from web pages, cleaning it, and processing it into a usable format that can be easily uploaded to a GPT. It removes unnecessary information and focuses on the relevant content.

What is the recommended format for downloading scraped data from the Website Content Crawler?

The recommended format for downloading scraped data is JSON, which is a widely supported format that makes it easy to upload and integrate the data into a custom GPT.

What is the significance of choosing the Cheerio crawler type in the Website Content Crawler?

The Cheerio crawler type is chosen because it is incredibly fast and efficient, especially for scraping websites that do not require JavaScript client-side rendering. This makes it an ideal choice for scraping static content quickly.

What kind of data can be selected and downloaded from the Website Content Crawler's output?

From the Website Content Crawler’s output, you can select and download specific data such as the URL and the body of text from web pages. You can also customize the selection of fields to focus on only the most relevant information.

What are the potential issues with uploading large files to a GPT?

Uploading large files to a GPT may cause issues like confusion in processing, as the model might struggle to handle excessive amounts of data, leading to less effective responses. It is recommended to stick with concise, relevant data to avoid such problems.