ChatGPT Search Scraper

Scrape ChatGPT Search at scale: ask ChatGPT any question with web search enabled and get back the full AI answer, cited sources, product recommendations with live prices, and brand-mention analysis — as clean, structured JSON.

Built for GEO / AEO monitoring (Generative Engine Optimization), SEO research, brand tracking, e-commerce intelligence, and LLM answer auditing.

What you get for every query

Field	Description
text	ChatGPT's full answer as clean plain text
answerMarkdown	The answer with inline citations resolved to markdown links
queryFanOut	The internal search queries ChatGPT generated to answer
citations	Sources cited inline: title, URL, domain, publish date, snippet
searchResults	Every web result ChatGPT consulted, with snippets and dates
sources	Combined list {id, title, url, section} (citations + more)
widgets	Product cards for shopping queries: name, price, currency, rating, images, merchants with offer URLs
brandMentions	Per tracked brand: mentioned in answer? cited? which URLs?

Why this scraper

• Pay only for answers. $0.15 per successfully extracted answer. Failed or blocked queries cost $0 and there is no Actor start fee.
• Richer output. Citations include snippets, domains, and publish dates. Shopping queries return structured product widgets with merchant offers. The markdown answer keeps clickable citation links.
• Brand tracking built in. Pass checkBrands: ["YourBrand", "competitor.com"] and every result reports whether ChatGPT mentioned or cited each brand — the core metric of GEO/AEO.
• Drop-in migration. The input field (queries, one per line) and the core output fields (query, text, queryFanOut, widgets, sources) match the schema you may already use, so switching takes zero code changes.
• Reliable. Talks to ChatGPT's backend directly with a real Chrome network fingerprint (no browser to break), solving the anti-bot challenges the site itself solves. Fresh proxy exit IP per retry, automatic block detection, configurable retries.

Input

{
  "queries": "best CRM for small business\nbest running shoes under $150",
  "checkBrands": ["HubSpot", "Salesforce"],
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Example output item

{
  "query": "best CRM for small business",
  "text": "If you mean CRM software for managing leads...",
  "answerMarkdown": "If you mean CRM software... ([HubSpot](https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm))",
  "queryFanOut": ["best CRM small business 2026 comparison"],
  "citations": [
    {
      "title": "The Best CRM Software of 2026",
      "url": "https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-crm-software",
      "domain": "PCMag",
      "pubDate": 1786974318.0,
      "snippet": "We tested the leading CRM platforms..."
    }
  ],
  "searchResults": [ ... ],
  "sources": [ {"id": 1, "title": "...", "url": "...", "section": "citations"} ],
  "widgets": [],
  "brandMentions": [
    {"brand": "HubSpot", "mentionedInAnswer": true, "cited": true, "citedUrls": ["https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm"]}
  ]
}

Use cases

• GEO / AEO monitoring — track how often ChatGPT recommends your brand vs. competitors, and which pages it cites, over time.
• SEO & content strategy — see which domains and articles win citations for your target queries, including publish dates and snippets.
• E-commerce intelligence — monitor which products, prices, and merchants ChatGPT surfaces for shopping queries.
• Query fan-out research — learn what ChatGPT actually searches for, to target those long-tail queries.
• LLM answer auditing — archive what ChatGPT tells users about your company, industry, or topic.

Pricing

$0.15 per answer. You are charged only when an answer is successfully extracted. No start fee, no charge for failures, no charge for blocked queries.

FAQ

Does it use the official API? No — it captures what ChatGPT Search actually shows users, including citations, sources, and product widgets that no API returns.

Which ChatGPT experience is scraped? The anonymous (logged-out) chatgpt.com search experience, the same one shown to users clicking a ChatGPT search link.

How fast is it? A typical query completes in 15–40 seconds, depending on how long ChatGPT streams its answer.

Is scraping ChatGPT legal? This actor only accesses publicly available pages without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data.