# ChatGPT Search Scraper - Answers, Citations & Brand Tracking (`parseforge/chatgpt-search-scraper`) Actor

Scrape ChatGPT Search answers: full text and Markdown, cited sources, claim-level citations, product cards and brand tracking. Export CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/chatgpt-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, AI, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $6.00 / 1,000 chatgpt answers

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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# README

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## 🤖 ChatGPT Search Scraper

> 🚀 **Export ChatGPT Search answers in seconds.** Send any list of questions and get back the full answer, every source ChatGPT cites, which sentence cites which source, the brands it highlights, its shopping cards and your own brand checks. In our cloud tests each answer took 6 to 14 seconds, with up to 9 cited sources and 17 websites searched per query.

This Actor asks ChatGPT your questions the way a logged-out visitor does on chatgpt.com, with the Web search tool switched on, and reads the answer straight from the data the ChatGPT web app renders: the citation pills, the "Sources" list, the product cards and the entity chips. Nothing is summarised or guessed. Each query runs in a fresh chat, so one question never colours the next.

Every row has 18 fields: the answer as plain text and as Markdown (tables and lists kept), how many websites ChatGPT searched, the cited sources with title, URL, domain and publisher, claim-level citations, the companies and products ChatGPT tagged as entities, shopping cards with price and merchant, and a visibility check for any brand or domain you list.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| SEO and GEO specialists | Track which pages ChatGPT cites for your keywords |
| Brand and PR teams | See how ChatGPT describes your brand and your rivals |
| Content marketers | Find the sources that win AI citations in your niche |
| E-commerce teams | Watch which products and merchants ChatGPT recommends |
| Market researchers | Collect AI answers at scale for analysis |
| Agencies | Report AI search visibility to clients, query by query |

### 📋 What the ChatGPT Search Scraper does

1. Takes a list of questions or keywords, one query per entry.
2. Opens a fresh logged-out ChatGPT chat for each query and turns on **Web search** (you can switch that off).
3. Waits for the complete answer and reads it from the page: text, Markdown, citation pills, the sources list, entity chips and product cards.
4. Strips ChatGPT's `utm_source=chatgpt.com` tag from every link so URLs match your own analytics.
5. Checks each brand or domain you list: named in the answer or not, how many times, where it first appears, and whether it is among the cited sources.
6. Writes one row per query. Failed queries are retried with a fresh session and never charged.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** more and more buyers ask ChatGPT before they ask Google. The answer they read names a handful of brands and cites a handful of pages. If your brand or your content is not in that answer, you are invisible at the moment of decision, and the only way to know is to ask the same questions ChatGPT's users ask, at scale, and keep the evidence.

### 🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

### 📊 Output

Each dataset row is one query and its ChatGPT answer. 18 columns per row.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🔎 `query` | string | The question you sent |
| 💬 `answerText` | string | The full answer as plain text |
| 📝 `answerMarkdown` | string | The same answer in Markdown, with headings, lists, bold and tables |
| 🔢 `answerWordCount` | number | Words in the answer |
| 🌐 `webSearchUsed` | string | `Yes` when ChatGPT searched the web for this answer |
| 🕸 `websitesSearched` | number | Websites ChatGPT reports it searched ("Searched 16 websites") |
| 📚 `sourcesCount` | number | Cited sources |
| 🏷 `citedDomains` | array | Unique domains of the cited sources, in citation order |
| 🔗 `sources` | array | Cited sources: position, title, URL, domain, publisher |
| 📌 `citations` | array | Each cited sentence of the answer with the sources that back it |
| 🛒 `productsCount` | number | Shopping cards in the answer |
| 🛍 `products` | array | Product cards: title, price, merchant, rating, review count, images, product ID |
| 🏢 `entitiesCount` | number | Entity chips in the answer |
| 🧩 `entities` | array | Companies, products and people ChatGPT tagged as entity chips, with its own category and description (only some answers have them) |
| 🎯 `trackedBrands` | array | Per brand or domain you listed: mentioned, mention count, first position, cited, cited position |
| ⏱ `responseTimeSeconds` | number | Seconds ChatGPT took to answer |
| 🕒 `scrapedAt` | string | When the row was collected |
| ❌ `error` | string | Populated only on failed rows |

Product fields ChatGPT does not show for a card (often rating and reviews) come back as `Not Disclosed`. Queries without shopping cards or entity chips return empty arrays, never nulls.

#### Real sample records

A full row, with brand tracking for `HubSpot` and `salesforce.com`:

```json
{
  "query": "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
  "answerText": "If you mean top CRM platforms in 2026, rather than a strict ranking, these five are among the most prominent and widely used:\n\n| CRM | Best suited for | Key strength |\n| Salesforce | Large/complex organizations | Deep customization, automation, integrations |\n| HubSpot CRM | SMBs and growing companies | Easy to use + strong sales/marketing integration |\n| Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Microsoft-centric businesses | CRM + Microsoft ecosystem integration |\n| Zoho CRM | Budget-conscious businesses | Broad features and relatively low cost |\n| Pipedrive | Sales-focused SMBs | Simple, visual sales pipeline |\n\nSalesforce remains the largest CRM vendor by market share, while current 2026 comparisons consistently include Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, and Pipedrive among the leading platforms.\n\nHow I'd narrow it down\n\n- Want the most powerful/customizable: Salesforce\n- Want easy implementation and an all-in-one sales/marketing platform: HubSpot\n- Already use Microsoft 365/Teams: Dynamics 365\n- Want lots of functionality for less money: Zoho\n- Primarily need a straightforward sales pipeline: Pipedrive\n\nIf you tell me your company size, number of salespeople, and approximate monthly CRM budget, I can give you a side-by-side comparison of the five, including pricing, AI features, automations, integrations, and which one fits your use case.",
  "answerMarkdown": "If you mean **top CRM platforms in 2026**, rather than a strict ranking, these five are among the most prominent and widely used:\n\n| CRM | Best suited for | Key strength |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Salesforce** | Large/complex organizations | Deep customization, automation, integrations |\n| **HubSpot CRM** | SMBs and growing companies | Easy to use + strong sales/marketing integration |\n| **Microsoft Dynamics 365** | Microsoft-centric businesses | CRM + Microsoft ecosystem integration |\n| **Zoho CRM** | Budget-conscious businesses | Broad features and relatively low cost |\n| **Pipedrive** | Sales-focused SMBs | Simple, visual sales pipeline |\n\nSalesforce remains the largest CRM vendor by market share, while current 2026 comparisons consistently include Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, and Pipedrive among the leading platforms.\n\n### How I'd narrow it down\n\n- **Want the most powerful/customizable:** Salesforce\n- **Want easy implementation and an all-in-one sales/marketing platform:** HubSpot\n- **Already use Microsoft 365/Teams:** Dynamics 365\n- **Want lots of functionality for less money:** Zoho\n- **Primarily need a straightforward sales pipeline:** Pipedrive\n\nIf you tell me **your company size, number of salespeople, and approximate monthly CRM budget**, I can give you a side-by-side comparison of the five, including **pricing, AI features, automations, integrations, and which one fits your use case**.",
  "answerWordCount": 209,
  "webSearchUsed": "Yes",
  "websitesSearched": 16,
  "sourcesCount": 3,
  "citedDomains": [
    "salesforce.com",
    "gartner.com",
    "softwareadvice.com"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "Salesforce Ranked #1 CRM Provider for 13th Year - Salesforce",
      "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/idc-crm-market-share-ranking-2026/",
      "domain": "salesforce.com",
      "publisher": "Salesforce"
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "title": "Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Sales Platforms",
      "url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/8230961",
      "domain": "gartner.com",
      "publisher": "Gartner"
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "title": "25 Best CRM Software - 2026 Reviews & Pricing",
      "url": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/",
      "domain": "softwareadvice.com",
      "publisher": "Software Advice"
    }
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "text": "Salesforce remains the largest CRM vendor by market share, while current 2026 comparisons consistently include Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Zoho, and Pipedrive among the leading platforms.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Salesforce Ranked #1 CRM Provider for 13th Year - Salesforce",
          "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/idc-crm-market-share-ranking-2026/",
          "domain": "salesforce.com",
          "publisher": "Salesforce"
        },
        {
          "title": "Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Sales Platforms",
          "url": "https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/8230961",
          "domain": "gartner.com",
          "publisher": "Gartner"
        },
        {
          "title": "25 Best CRM Software - 2026 Reviews & Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/",
          "domain": "softwareadvice.com",
          "publisher": "Software Advice"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "productsCount": 0,
  "products": [],
  "entitiesCount": 0,
  "entities": [],
  "trackedBrands": [
    {
      "brand": "HubSpot",
      "mentioned": "Yes",
      "mentionCount": 3,
      "firstMentionAtChar": 263,
      "cited": "No",
      "citedPosition": "N/A"
    },
    {
      "brand": "salesforce.com",
      "mentioned": "Yes",
      "mentionCount": 4,
      "firstMentionAtChar": 171,
      "cited": "Yes",
      "citedPosition": 1
    }
  ],
  "responseTimeSeconds": 6.8,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T20:49:03.170Z",
  "error": null
}
```

A shopping query, arrays shortened to the first entries:

```json
{
  "query": "best running shoes for flat feet 2026",
  "answerWordCount": 331,
  "webSearchUsed": "Yes",
  "websitesSearched": 4,
  "sourcesCount": 4,
  "citedDomains": [
    "runnersworld.com",
    "runrepeat.com"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "The 8 Best Running Shoes for Flat Feet in 2026 - Shoes for Flat-Footed Runners",
      "url": "https://www.runnersworld.com/gear/a25750345/running-shoes-flat-feet/",
      "domain": "runnersworld.com",
      "publisher": "Runner's World"
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "title": "70+ Stability Running Shoe Reviews | RunRepeat",
      "url": "https://runrepeat.com/catalog/stability-running-shoes",
      "domain": "runrepeat.com",
      "publisher": "#1 Athletic Shoe Review Site"
    }
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "text": "Flat feet don't automatically mean you need aggressive arch support. Current guidance emphasizes comfort, fit, and how your foot actually behaves while running rather than simply selecting the shoe with the biggest arch bump.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "The 8 Best Running Shoes for Flat Feet in 2026 - Shoes for Flat-Footed Runners",
          "url": "https://www.runnersworld.com/gear/a25750345/running-shoes-flat-feet/",
          "domain": "runnersworld.com",
          "publisher": "Runner's World"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "productsCount": 5,
  "products": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "imageUrl": "https://images.openai.com/products/v1/40/4a/404adcce6fb3bc308f6b649b774cce6a2f7ac086b18c6ed106758d295bee5cdb.jpg",
      "title": "Brooks Adrenaline GTS 25",
      "price": "$155.00",
      "merchant": "Nordstrom",
      "rating": "Not Disclosed",
      "reviewCount": "Not Disclosed",
      "productId": "A4721147",
      "imageUrls": [
        "https://images.openai.com/products/v1/40/4a/404adcce6fb3bc308f6b649b774cce6a2f7ac086b18c6ed106758d295bee5cdb.jpg"
      ]
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "imageUrl": "https://images.openai.com/products/v1/28/5f/285fed136685b06a3174ee1dc0d1feb49a854eac3f6de5bffa8b955b0a8fd2c6.jpg",
      "title": "ASICS GEL-KAYANO 32",
      "price": "$124.95",
      "merchant": "Nordstrom",
      "rating": "Not Disclosed",
      "reviewCount": "Not Disclosed",
      "productId": "A9371865",
      "imageUrls": [
        "https://images.openai.com/products/v1/28/5f/285fed136685b06a3174ee1dc0d1feb49a854eac3f6de5bffa8b955b0a8fd2c6.jpg"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "entitiesCount": 0,
  "entities": [],
  "responseTimeSeconds": 10.4,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T20:49:21.361Z",
  "error": null
}
```

The entity chips ChatGPT attached to a CRM answer (other fields omitted):

```json
{
  "query": "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
  "sourcesCount": 4,
  "citedDomains": [
    "technologyadvice.com",
    "salesforce.com",
    "g2.com",
    "gartner.com"
  ],
  "entitiesCount": 5,
  "entities": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "name": "Salesforce",
      "category": "company",
      "description": "CRM software company"
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "name": "HubSpot",
      "category": "company",
      "description": "CRM and marketing software company"
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "name": "Zoho",
      "category": "company",
      "description": "business software company"
    },
    {
      "position": 4,
      "name": "Microsoft",
      "category": "company",
      "description": "technology company"
    },
    {
      "position": 5,
      "name": "Pipedrive",
      "category": "company",
      "description": "CRM software company"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T20:45:35.574Z",
  "error": null
}
```

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

- **Claim-level citations.** `citations` pairs each cited sentence of the answer with the exact sources behind it, so you see not only that a page was cited but what ChatGPT used it to say.
- **Built-in brand visibility.** List your brand, your domain and your competitors in **Brands or domains to track** and every row says whether each one is named, how often, how early, and whether it is cited. No spreadsheet formulas needed.
- **Shopping cards included.** Product recommendations come with price, merchant, rating, review count, product ID and images.
- **Answer text and Markdown.** Tables, lists and headings survive in `answerMarkdown`, ready for an LLM pipeline or a report. `answerText` is the same answer flattened.
- **Entity chips when ChatGPT shows them.** Some answers tag companies or products as clickable entities with a category and a one-line description; `entities` keeps them in order. ChatGPT shows these chips only in some answers (3 of about 30 in our tests), so treat the column as a bonus, not a guarantee.
- **Clean URLs.** The `utm_source=chatgpt.com` tag is removed from every source URL.
- **Fresh chat per query.** No conversation memory leaks from one question into the next.
- **Charged only for answers.** Queries that fail after retries are written as error rows and are never billed.

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| | This Actor | Typical ChatGPT search scrapers | Checking by hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full answer text | Yes, plain text and Markdown | Plain text | Copy and paste |
| Cited sources with publisher and domain | Yes | Title and URL | Manual |
| Which sentence cites which source | Yes | No | Manual |
| Entity chips (when ChatGPT shows them) | Yes | No | Manual |
| Shopping cards with price and merchant | Yes | Some | Manual |
| Brand and domain visibility checks | Built in | No, separate tools | Manual |
| The follow-up searches ChatGPT ran | No, see below | Some | No |
| Needs your OpenAI account | No | Varies | Yes |

ChatGPT does not show logged-out visitors the list of follow-up searches it ran or the pages it read but did not cite. The Actor reports the count ChatGPT displays ("Searched 16 websites") in `websitesSearched`, and the cited pages in full.

### 🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account. New accounts include $5 of free platform credit, which is plenty to try this out: [console.apify.com/sign-up](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp)
2. Open the Actor and go to the Input tab.
3. Add your questions to **Search queries**, one per entry. Write them the way your customers would ask ChatGPT.
4. Set **Max Items** to the number of queries to run.
5. Optionally list brands or domains in **Brands or domains to track**, for example your brand and three competitors.
6. Click **Start**. The log shows the words, sources, citations and products found for each query as it goes.
7. Open the **Dataset** tab and download as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or pull it from the API.

```json
{
  "queries": ["What are the top 5 CRM tools", "best CRM for small business"],
  "maxItems": 2,
  "trackBrands": ["HubSpot", "salesforce.com", "Pipedrive"]
}
```

### 💼 Business use cases

#### Generative engine optimization (GEO) tracking

Build a list of the questions your buyers ask, run it weekly, and chart `trackedBrands` over time: how often ChatGPT names you, how early in the answer, and whether your own domain is among the cited sources. `citedDomains` shows which publishers you need to be featured on to get there.

#### Competitive intelligence

Put your brand and your top competitors in **Brands or domains to track** and run category questions ("best X for Y"). The rows show who ChatGPT recommends first, who it cites, and, when ChatGPT shows entity chips, the one-line description it attaches to each company in `entities`.

#### Content and PR strategy

`citations` shows the exact sentences ChatGPT backs with each source. Aggregate them across a keyword set and you get the list of review sites, publishers and pages that shape AI answers in your niche, and what those answers borrow from them.

#### E-commerce and product visibility

For shopping questions, `products` lists the cards ChatGPT shows with price and merchant. Track which of your products appear, at what price, and which retailers ChatGPT sends buyers to.

### 🔌 Automating ChatGPT Search Scraper

- **Make** and **Zapier**: run the Actor on a schedule and push new rows into a sheet or a dashboard.
- **Slack**: post an alert when a tracked brand drops out of an answer or a competitor appears.
- **Airbyte**: sync datasets into Snowflake, BigQuery or Postgres for long-term AI visibility reporting.
- **GitHub**: trigger runs from Actions and keep versioned snapshots of how answers change.
- **Google Drive**: save a CSV or Google Sheet to a shared folder after every run.
- **API and webhooks**: every run emits a dataset ID; subscribe to the run succeeded webhook and pull the rows into any system.

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

- **Research**: study how AI search engines select and attribute sources, and how answers drift over weeks.
- **Personal**: compare what ChatGPT recommends for a purchase before you buy.
- **Non-profit**: check how ChatGPT describes your cause, and which sources it trusts on the topic.
- **Experimentation**: `answerMarkdown` plus `citations` is a clean dataset for evaluating grounding and citation quality.

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant to get help designing your run:

> I am using the ParseForge ChatGPT Search Scraper on Apify. It sends my queries to ChatGPT (logged out, web search on) and returns one row per query with 18 fields: query, answerText, answerMarkdown, answerWordCount, webSearchUsed, websitesSearched, sourcesCount, citedDomains, sources (position, title, url, domain, publisher), citations (cited sentence plus its sources), productsCount, products (title, price, merchant, rating, reviewCount, productId, images), entitiesCount, entities (name, category, description), trackedBrands (brand, mentioned, mentionCount, firstMentionAtChar, cited, citedPosition), responseTimeSeconds and scrapedAt. Help me design a query list and a brand list to answer this question: \[your question here].

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

**🔐 Do I need an OpenAI or ChatGPT account?**
No. The Actor uses ChatGPT the way a logged-out visitor does on chatgpt.com. You never hand over credentials or an API key.

**🌐 Does every answer use web search?**
With **Force web search** on (the default), the Web search tool is switched on for every query and answers come with citations. For a few purely creative prompts ChatGPT may still answer without searching; `webSearchUsed` tells you which rows were grounded. Switch the option off to see what ChatGPT answers on its own.

**🔎 Can I get the follow-up searches ChatGPT ran?**
No. ChatGPT does not show that list to logged-out visitors. You get the number of websites it reports searching in `websitesSearched`, and every source it cites in full.

**📚 Why are there fewer sources than websites searched?**
ChatGPT reads more pages than it cites. `sources` lists what it cites in the answer; `websitesSearched` is the number it reports having looked at.

**🎯 How does brand tracking match my brands?**
Names are matched case-insensitively in the answer text. A domain like `salesforce.com` is matched in the text by its name ("Salesforce") and against the cited sources by domain, so you learn both whether the brand is named and whether its site is cited.

**🧩 What are entities?**
In some answers ChatGPT tags companies, products and people as clickable entity chips with its own category and description. The Actor returns them in order in `entities`. ChatGPT decides when to show them: in our tests about 3 answers in 30 had them, and the other rows return an empty array.

**🛒 What currency are product prices in?**
The currency ChatGPT shows, which follows the country the question is asked from. Without a proxy the platform asks from the United States and prices come in US dollars. Turn on a residential proxy with a country to see local prices.

**🛡 Do I need a proxy?**
No. The Actor runs without one by default, and without a proxy all 14 queries in our last cloud tests answered on the first try. A residential proxy is only useful to ask from a specific country; in our tests answers from residential exits were also shorter (70 to 190 words against 190 to 610 without a proxy).

**⏱ How long does a run take?**
About 6 to 14 seconds per query in our cloud tests, plus a few seconds to start.

**🔁 What happens when a query fails?**
It is retried up to four times with a fresh browser session. If it still fails, the row carries an `error` and is not charged.

**🧠 Is each query independent?**
Yes. Every query runs in a brand-new chat, so earlier questions never influence later answers.

**📥 What export formats are supported?**
CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, plus direct API access and integrations with Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Slack, Google Drive and more.

**⚖️ Is this legal?**
The Actor collects the answers ChatGPT gives to any logged-out visitor. You remain responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with OpenAI's terms and applicable law.

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

Every run writes to an Apify dataset reachable through a REST API, so the output drops into whatever you already use. Native integrations cover Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Google Sheets and webhooks, and the API covers everything else.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

- [Google Search Scraper - 23 Fields, Organic & Paid](https://apify.com/parseforge/google-search-scraper) - compare ChatGPT's sources with Google's rankings for the same keywords.
- [Bing Search Results Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/bing-search-scraper) - the index behind much of AI search.
- [Google Shopping Scraper - Product Prices & Offers](https://apify.com/parseforge/google-shopping-prices-scraper) - check the prices ChatGPT's product cards quote.
- [Similarweb Traffic Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/similarweb-scraper) - size up the domains ChatGPT cites.
- [Reddit Scraper & Search API: Posts, Users, Subreddits](https://apify.com/parseforge/reddit-posts-scraper) - see what the communities ChatGPT reads are saying.

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge).

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# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Questions or keywords to ask ChatGPT, one per entry. Each query runs in a fresh, logged-out chat and produces one dataset row.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000

## `forceWebSearch` (type: `boolean`):

Turn on ChatGPT's Web search tool for every query, so each answer is grounded in live web results with citations. Switch off to see what ChatGPT answers on its own (it may still decide to search).

## `trackBrands` (type: `array`):

Optional. Brand names or domains (e.g. HubSpot, salesforce.com). For each one the row reports whether the answer names it, how often, and whether it is among the cited sources.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Off by default: ChatGPT answers the Apify platform directly. Turn on Residential proxy with a country to see the answers and shopping prices (with their currency) that visitors from that country get.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
    "best running shoes for flat feet 2026"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "forceWebSearch": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Key fields

## `fullData` (type: `string`):

Complete dataset with all 18 fields

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
        "best running shoes for flat feet 2026"
    ],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/chatgpt-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": [
        "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
        "best running shoes for flat feet 2026",
    ],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/chatgpt-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "What are the top 5 CRM tools",
    "best running shoes for flat feet 2026"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call parseforge/chatgpt-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,parseforge/chatgpt-search-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/dq84NJye7PQNb2jrP/builds/fG7Iw1hQzjgBIKg4O/openapi.json