A comprehensive free course on building personalized AI chatbots using Zapier. Learn web scraping with Scrapy, markdown formatting, and strategic bot management.
By the end of this course, you'll have built two specialized AI chatbots and learned the skills to create unlimited more. Perfect for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and anyone wanting to use AI without ongoing subscription costs.
Learn how markdown makes AI communication efficient, and understand TOML vs JSON for feeding context to your chatbots.
Set up your AI development environment with Python, VSCode, Terminal, and Scrapy.
Master Scrapy to extract content from websites as clean markdown. Learn batch processing and error handling.
Build your first Zapier chatbot with the Scrapy manual as knowledge base and a TOML directive.
Build a specialist chatbot for Zapier automation help using scraped forum content.
Understand RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and manage your chatbot knowledge bases efficiently within token limits.
Understand the data implications of using third-party AI services and when self-hosting makes sense.
Build a complete specialist chatbot from scratch using everything you've learned.
Learn to preserve your chatbot configurations for free tier rotation and efficient bot management.