ChatDocs

ChatDocs is an open-source project that enables you to ask questions about your online documentation and receive real-time answers.

How it works:

1. Index your documentation 📝
2. Deploy the web application 🚀
3. Ask questions 🤔

Prerequisites 📋

This project uses:

• OpenAI for generating answers.
• Pinecone for indexing the documentation.
• Vercel for hosting the web application.

Be sure to have an account and your credentials for each of these services.

Ensure you have Node.js and Python 3 installed on your machine.

Architecture 🏛️

The project is composed of the following components:

• webapp: folder containing the frontend code for the Q&A website.
• crawl.py: Python script to crawl a website and index its content in Pinecone.

Getting Started 🚀

To get started with ChatDocs, follow these instructions:

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/ClemDev2000/chatdocs

Install dependencies and setup the project

It will create a Python virtual environment and install the dependencies.

It will also ask your for your OpenAI and Pinecone credentials.

sh setup.sh

Customize the project

Edit webapp/public/logo.svg with the logo of your service.

Index your documentation

• domain is your top-level domain (e.g. stripe.com).
• url is the root URL of the page you want to index (e.g. https://stripe.com/docs/atlas/). In that case, the script will crawl all the pages with the following wildcard: https://stripe.com/docs/atlas/*.
• excludes (optional) is a list of URLs you want to exclude from the index. It can be useful if you want to exclude the homepage or the pricing page.

# Activate the Python virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# Index the documentation
python3 crawl.py \
  --domain stripe.com \
  --url https://stripe.com/docs/atlas \
  --excludes https://stripe.com/docs/api,https://stripe.com/docs/js,https://stripe.com/docs/cli

Running the project locally

Open a terminal and run:

cd webapp
npm run dev

Go to http://localhost:3000 to see the website.

Deploy the web application on Vercel

• Go to your dashboard and create a new project.
• Select Next.js as the framework preset.
• Select webapp as the root directory.
• Copy the content of webapp/.env.local into the Environment Variables section.
• Click on Deploy and wait for the deployment to finish.

Contributing 🧑‍💻

We welcome contributions to ChatDocs! To get started, follow these steps:

• Fork the repository.
• Create a new branch for your changes.
• Make your changes and commit them to your branch.
• Push your changes to your fork.
• Submit a pull request with a detailed description of your changes.

Contact 🤙

If you have any questions or comments about ChatDocs or if you want some help to deploy it for your project, please contact us at hello@dreamcin.com.

We hope you find ChatDocs useful and enjoy using it!

Creator 🧑🏼‍🎨

Created by Clément Thiriet. A DreamCin product.