Search the web

You can get the chat endpoint in StartKit.AI to search the web for you.

Note

The Google Search API provides 100 search queries per day for free. You have to pay for additional requests, the cost is $5 per 1000 queries, up to 10k queries per day.

Create Programmable Google Search Engine

First create a Programmable Google Search Engine from here:
https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/

You’ll receive a bit of code when setup, but we only need the code after the cx value, shown here as 178e4942b16d24b51:

Drop this code into your StartKit.AI .env file:

.env

WEB_SEARCH_ID=178e4942b16d24b51

If you want to you can restrict your Search Engine to a specific website and various other things.

Get a Google API Key

Visit this page: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/introduction

Click the blue button that says “Get a key”

After generating your key paste it into your .env file:

.env

GOOGLE_SEARCH_KEY=aIzagyDyiOpA4_S0rxn80EWMLaTfedg1zelU8b8

Restart StartKit.AI

Restart the StartKit process, and now the Chat demo will be able to search webpages for you.

If you want to tweak the search API, it’s a function you can find in /api/modules/chat/functions.js called searchWeb().