What is GitBook?
GitBook is a collaborative documentation platform used by teams to write internal wikis, public knowledge bases, and API references. It publishes content as a hosted website with a clean reading experience.
How Kelu works with GitBook
Everything you can do once the integration is connected.
Space-level crawling
Kelu crawls your entire GitBook space, capturing every page including nested sub-pages and variant branches.
Scheduled re-sync
Kelu re-crawls your GitBook site every 24 hours, and Sync Now re-crawls on demand, so your Kelu index reflects the latest edits made in GitBook.
Published GitBook sites
Index your published GitBook site directly, on yourproduct.gitbook.io or your custom domain. Kelu has no GitBook API integration, so pages must be reachable on the web.
Citation links to exact pages
Answers include direct links to the GitBook page and heading anchor, making it easy for users to read the full context.
How to set it up
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Create a Kelu knowledge base and add your published GitBook site URL as a website source.
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Run the first crawl. Kelu normalizes GitBook's page structure into clean markdown chunks ready for embedding.
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GitBook-hosted pages can't run the widget, so put the Kelu widget on your own site or app, or answer in Slack, Teams, or the MCP server.
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Got questions?
GitBook — Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about connecting Kelu to GitBook.
No. Kelu has no GitBook integration: it crawls your published GitBook site like any docs site, so the pages must be reachable on the web.
GitBook has no setting that adds your own script tag to a published site, so the widget can't run on GitBook-hosted pages. Put it on your own site or app instead, or add it through a proxy you control, such as a Cloudflare Worker (this does not work for *.gitbook.io addresses).
Yes. Kelu crawls your GitBook space and captures all pages including nested sub-pages. To index one variant, use its URL path as the Start URL, or narrow the crawl with include and exclude patterns.
Kelu re-crawls your GitBook site every 24 hours. For more immediate updates, click Sync Now in the Kelu dashboard after major edits.
Yes. Every AI answer includes numbered citation links pointing to the exact GitBook page URL and, where possible, to the specific heading anchor — so readers can verify and read the full context in one click.