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 "generated": "2026-11-01",
 "id": "assafelovic-gpt-researcher--research-your-own-documents-with-gpt-researcher",
 "repo": "assafelovic/gpt-researcher",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcher",
 "repo_slug": "assafelovic-gpt-researcher",
 "title": "Write a report from your own documents",
 "page_title": "How to write a report from your own documents with GPT Researcher",
 "summary": "Point GPT Researcher at a folder of PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV or Markdown files and research them instead of the web.",
 "who": "A consultant or team with a pile of internal documents.",
 "problem": "Internal reports are scattered across files nobody has time to read end to end.",
 "outcome": "A research report grounded in your local documents.",
 "steps": [
  "Install the app as in the README Installation steps, or the package with `pip install gpt-researcher`",
  "Point it at your folder with `export DOC_PATH=\"./my-docs\"`",
  "In the web app, choose My Documents from the Report Source dropdown",
  "With the pip package, pass report_source as local when creating GPTResearcher"
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Using assafelovic/gpt-researcher, set `export DOC_PATH=\"./my-docs\"` to <my folder> and produce a report on <question> using report_source local.",
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  "codex",
  "cursor",
  "gemini-cli"
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 "difficulty": "Beginner",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "Supported formats per the README are PDF, plain text, CSV, Excel, Markdown, PowerPoint and Word.",
 "category": "Research",
 "tags": [
  "Research"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Python 3.12 or later",
  "An OpenAI API key and a Tavily API key, or a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint",
  "Docker if you prefer the docker compose setup"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [
  {
   "tag": "privacy",
   "notice": "Your document contents are sent to the configured LLM provider; use a local OpenAI-compatible endpoint via OPENAI_BASE_URL if they are confidential."
  }
 ],
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 "score": 0.9,
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