You can always use borrowed power..?

The Web-sum ChatGPT Plugin is currently hosted on a Replit account, meaning that you can use it without having to deploy it yourself. This is the easiest way to use the plugin, but it does have some drawbacks, namely that the plugin will only be online for as long as the Replit account is online, which is only as long as the webpage is open. This means that if you close the webpage, the plugin will go offline and you will have to wait for it to come back online. This is not a problem if you are only using the plugin for a short period of time, but if you are using it for a long period of time, it may be better to deploy it yourself.

However, it is available on the ChatGPT Plugins store, meaning you can always simply:

  1. Go to chat.openai.com
  2. Click New chat > GPT-4 > Plugins (Beta) > Plugin store > Web-sum

Et voilà! you are ready to browse the web using ChatGPT.

Fine, you’ll do it yourself

I guess you’re a bit of a control freak, huh? Well, that’s fine, I get it. Deploying Web-sum ChatGPT Plugin on your own Replit account is simple and straightforward, the method being from this current webpage:

  1. Go to replit.com
  2. Make an account and create a repl using Python
  3. Download the latest release from https://github.com/sunnydigital/web-sum/releases
  4. Manually drag all associated files into the folder for your Repl
  5. Click Run
  6. Go to chat.openai.com
  7. Click New chat > GPT-4 > Plugins (Beta) > Plugin store > Install your own plugin
  8. Enter the URL for your Repl, which is different for each person/Repl but always in the form <Repl Name>.<Your Username>.repl.co

Et voilà! you are ready to browse the web using ChatGPT.

Enter the webpage you would like to read (in the form of an URL) or the link to a PDF hosted by a website (through an URL ending with .pdf).

Note:

  1. Installing your own and running your Repl is free, but the Repl will only be online for as long as your remain on the page, you can however pay money and deploy it.
  2. The current iteration of the plugin does not handle text over the token size of 4096 as set for both GPT-3.5 (ChatGPT) and GPT-4. Every 1000 “tokens” is roughly 750 words, meaning for approximately 3072 words in the webpage or URL document. Future iterations will handle this issue, potentially including multiple post/get requests to process all tokens of a document.