Free online courseHow to use ChatGPT

Course Description

Learn how to turn ChatGPT into a practical tool you can use in real projects. This free online course is designed for anyone who wants to move beyond chatting in a browser and start integrating generative AI directly into applications. You will understand what the ChatGPT API is, why it is useful for automation, and how API access enables repeatable workflows, better control, and integration with other systems.

Throughout the course, you will work with Python to connect to the API and apply it to everyday tasks that matter in tech roles: transforming text, extracting insights, and creating utilities that can run on demand. You will also explore how to think about service-oriented design so your AI features can fit cleanly into a broader architecture, whether you are building a script for yourself or a component inside a larger product.

To expand beyond text, you will see how generative image creation works through an API approach and how it can be incorporated into a workflow when you need visuals produced programmatically. From there, the focus shifts to a common real-world use case: collecting and processing information from the web. You will practice building pipelines that combine scraping and structured parsing with AI assistance, while staying mindful of the main risks and limitations such as reliability, compliance, and the quality of extracted data.

You will also learn alternatives that make data collection cleaner and more stable, like consuming RSS feeds instead of scraping dynamic homepages. Finally, you will connect AI to video content by retrieving transcripts from YouTube and using them as input for summarization, analysis, and repurposing. By the end, you should be able to design prompts for consistent outputs, connect Python tools around the API, and build small but valuable AI-powered automations that fit into modern software workflows.