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Adding Web Documentation as Knowledge Base

Adding Web Documentation as Knowledge Base

Learn to integrate web documentation as a knowledge base into CrawlChat, enhancing its ability to answer questions with your custom content.

Knowledge BaseJul 12, 2025, 3:19 PM

Steps

1

Go to Knowledge Base

Go to Knowledge Base

Go to the Knowledge Base Section

2

Click Add group

Click Add group

Create a new group to organize your documentation.

3

Select Docusaurus Docs If so

Select Docusaurus Docs If so

Select Docusaurus as your documentation source if your documentation system is based on Docusaurus

4

Or select Web

Or select Web

Select Web to use web-based documentation. This works for most of the use cases as it crawls the web page and all the links it contains inside

5

Give it a name

Give it a name

Give the group a name so that it gets easy to manage and maintain it

6

Enter the URL

Enter the URL

Enter the URL of your web-based documentation.

7

Create New Knowledge Group

Create New Knowledge Group

Hit Create button to create it with the above given details

8

Access Knowledge Base

Access Knowledge Base

The new group is successfully created now!

9

Go to Knowledge

Go to Knowledge

Navigate to the Knowledge Base section.

10

Our new Knowledge Group

Our new Knowledge Group

You can confirm that the new group is created and listed under the Knowledge page as a group

11

Refresh

Refresh

We are all set to fetch the content and add them as documentation for our chatbot. Hit Refresh button

12

Check progress

Check progress

You can check the progress of the fetch process. It shows the number of pages it fetches, the current status, and you can stop it in between if you want.

13

Open the group

Open the group

Navigate to the group to find out more details

14

View Knowledge Items

View Knowledge Items

Go to Knowledge Items tab to view the pages it has fetched and the contents.

15

View all the pages

View all the pages

You can see the pages it has scraped. It shows the URL and Title of the page for a better understanding

16

Open an Item

Open an Item

You can click any item to view the contents of the page it scraped.

17

View the page contents

View the page contents

You can see the contents it fetched. It automatically converts the page contents to Markdown so that AI understands it better.

Remember, if any unnecessary content is fetched, it is important to remove them as it degrades the chatbot performance. This is covered in other guide.