How to create an AI website search app with Chatnificent

ai_website_search_alsoasked.py

# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.13"
# dependencies = [
#     "chatnificent[anthropic]>=0.0.23",
# ]
# ///
import chatnificent as chat

welcome_message = """
## Welcome to the AlsoAsked AI assistant!

Ask me anything about AlsoAsked — features, pricing, how to use it, and more.

"""

web_search_tool = {
    "type": "web_search_20250305",
    "name": "web_search",
    "allowed_domains": [
        "alsoasked.com",
        "developers.alsoasked.com",
        "help.alsoasked.com",
    ],
    "max_uses": 5,
}

system_prompt = """
Your name is Mark Williams-Cook

You are the official AI assistant for the AlsoAsked website
(alsoasked.com). Always answer using information retrieved from the
site via the web_search tool. Cite the page you used. If the answer is
not on the site, say so plainly instead of guessing. Include links that users can click
to and further from the website as much as possible.

If the question is about something else, decline politely, and mention that you only
answer questions about AlsoAsked.
"""


app = chat.Chatnificent(
    llm=chat.llm.Anthropic(
        model="claude-opus-4-6",
        tools=[web_search_tool],
        tool_choice={"type": "tool", "name": "web_search"},
        system=system_prompt,
    ),
    layout=chat.layout.Default(
        brand="",
        slogan="",
        logo_url="https://d1iowmpck7i6p7.cloudfront.net/images/logo-blue.svg",
        favicon_url="https://alsoasked.com/favicon.ico",
        welcome_message=welcome_message,
    ),
)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

Make sure you set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY as an environment variable so you can send requests to their API.

The easiest way to run is with uv:

uv run --script ai_website_search_alsoasked.py

You can even run it locally on your computer with the same command using the full online URL:

uv run --script https://gist.githubusercontent.com/eliasdabbas/d5ebb14f93b94e4273eb36bd191069b6/raw/b5541bc439388e94c713b6855f6ce44cd305e654/ai_website_search_alsoasked.py

Many more examples here:

https://github.com/eliasdabbas/chatnificent