GPT Astra 6: How to Automate ANYTHING!

Julian Goldie (0:00)

Today, we're going to be looking at some of the best ways to number one, reduce the amount of tokens used with Astra 6, but also to use it for web research and for creating websites. So let's get straight into it. This is based on a question from Desmond inside the AR Profit Boardroom. So shout out to him. I'm going to get straight into answering each of the questions that we have today. So first of all, how can we basically use GPT-6 Astra for doing web research and also for looking through the web, finding information, and then using that for our projects? So one of the easiest ways you can do that with this is, if you go over to a new chat, like so, we can use something like Firecrawl, right? Firecrawl basically helps us get data from the web, and it's a really powerful API for getting the latest information. Now, how do you do this? What you can do is inside ChatGPT or inside Codex, wherever you prefer, whichever agents you're using, even Hermes agent as well, you can basically get a free API from Firecrawl and then use that as the MCP inside ChatGPT. So if we go inside ChatGPT here and say, can you set up Firecrawl to allow me to do web research? Ideally, you see MCP set up for me. So you can see that is set up right here.

And also the cool thing about this is that if you're getting started with Firecrawl, you can set it up without the API key, which is pretty nice. So you can try it instantly. So let's test this out. We need to restart our AI agent before we can get into it. So let's try it now. Now, if you use it without the API key or sign in, then this is limited usage. But if you run out of limits and you want to keep using it, then you can just sign in or get a free API key from Firecrawl directly. So you can try it out for free, see what you think, and then move on from there. And the great thing is about this is like, Codex already understands how to use it. So you can see that ran successfully over here, and that was pretty simple and easy. And again, like you may run out of tokens or you may run out of limits on here. That's fine, you just sign in and get an API key once you're done, but to try out, free and easy to use. And you can use that inside whatever agent you prefer. You know, that could be, for example, Firecrawl, it could be with Hermes Agent, Claude, Codex, all of them understand and work in the same way with MCPs like this. Now, another option that you have is Appify. Appify is pretty good. That can get web data as well, like you see right here. Pretty good for lead generation and that sort of thing as well. And the way that you can run this is basically, we can go into, again, our AI agent, and we would say, can you set up the Appify MCP for me? And what I'm actually going to do is give it the details over here. And we may need to log in for Appify, but we can connect it like so. It works in the same way. Appify will actually give you access to a lot of stuff and a lot more tools that you won't get with FireCrawl. So it's more powerful, but at the same time, there are more limits on that in terms of how many tokens you're going to use and everything. So you can see here, it's going to ask me to log in. We're just going to log in like so. We'll sign in like this, allow access, and that's completed and set up. So you can see, that is now set up here. So let's just test this out. So we're going to say, use Appify to research my competitors like so. And just bear in mind, you probably need a paid account to use Appify when I've tested it in the past. So just something to be aware of there. And if it breaks or anything like that, just get the documentation from Appify, as you can see right here, and then you can give that to your AI agent like so. Next up, let's talk about how we can use websites for inspiration when it comes to building out a new site. So the way that I like to do this is if I see like a design that I like, like this, I can take a screenshot, go to a new chat, and be like, okay, can you just create a website about SEO in this style? And you can see here that we've given the example website as an example and just ask it to be a similar system. And then also something to note here is that you just want to test and iterate once it comes back to you. So there's going to be certain functionality on the website that the agent creates for you based on your original inspiration that might be slightly different, so you just have to tweak it. So just give it feedback from there. Now also you can see here if we go back to the Appify conversation, it's found relevant competitors and that works really nicely. We did have to paste in the documentation, but we got a full research report here based on that system, so that works really nicely. And then if we go back to the website we're creating, that will take a while, but it's being designed in the background. Now option two for using websites inspiration is you can use a GitHub repo like you see right here. Again, you want to just check through it, make sure it actually works, make sure that you're happy with it. You could even build your own skill based on this if you don't want to use the original.