scott------ / askmybook

chatbot trained on custom corpus

Setup

1. Create and fill in .env using .env.example as an example.

2. Install required Python packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Mac M1 / OS X Note: if you get an error installing psycopg2, you may need:

brew install postgresql

See psycopg/psycopg2#1200

3. Turn your PDF into embeddings for GPT-3:

python scripts/pdf_to_pages_embeddings.py --pdf book.pdf

4. Set up database tables:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

5. Other things to update:

• Book title
• Book cover image
• URL to purchase book
• Author name and bio

Deploy to Heroku

1. Create a Heroku app:

heroku create askmybook

Set config variables on Heroku to match .env.

2. Push to Heroku:

git push heroku main
heroku ps:scale web=1
heroku run python manage.py migrate
heroku open
heroku domains:add askmybook.com

Note that this repo does not contain the pages.csv and embeddings.csv you'll need, generated above. You can remove .csv from your own .gitignore and push them manually via git push heroku main.

Run locally

heroku local