ChatGPT Scraper API

Send a prompt, get structured search results back. The Bright Data ChatGPT Scraper API handles proxies, browser automation, and parsing so you can focus on your data pipeline.

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How it works

You send a prompt to the Bright Data ChatGPT Scraper API. Bright Data handles the scraping infrastructure and returns clean, structured JSON with the answer, citations, and sources.

Your app  -->  Bright Data API  -->  Structured JSON
           POST /datasets/v3/scrape
           Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

All requests use the dataset_id for ChatGPT Search and return results in JSON, NDJSON, or CSV.

What the response looks like

A single record returned by the Bright Data ChatGPT Scraper API on September 6, 2026, trimmed to the fields shown. Run the request yourself in the quickstart.

{
  "url": "https://chatgpt.com/?q=Top%20hotels%20in%20New%20York",
  "prompt": "Top hotels in New York",
  "answer_text": "Map data is currently unavailable Aman New York 4.3 Отель 2 450 $ The Plaza Hotel The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel 4.5 Отель 1 359 $ The Mark Hotel 4.5 Отель 2...",
  "model": null,
  "web_search_triggered": true,
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/hotels/best-luxury-hotels-in-nyc?utm_source=chatgpt.com",
      "title": "16 Best Luxury Hotels in New York City For 2026 | World-Class Hotels in NYC",
      "description": "Time Out Worldwide",
      "icon": null
    }
  ],
  "search_sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/hotels/best-luxury-hotels-in-nyc?utm_source=chatgpt.com",
      "title": "16 Best Luxury Hotels in New York City For 2026 | World-Class Hotels in NYC",
      "snippet": null,
      "rank": 1
    }
  ],
  "prompt_sent_at": "2026-09-06T10:22:47.311Z",
  "answer_html": "<html lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" data-theme=\"light\" data-contrast=\"default\" data-build=\"prod-4ec31e730ff961987ab0f9a7e9dd6248f66da3b0\" data-close-image-viewer=\"C...",
  "is_map": true
}

Which capabilities are supported

Search with Citations

Get structured answers with source citations, positions, and linked references from ChatGPT web search.

Follow-up Prompts

Send an additional prompt to get follow-up answers within the same search context.

Shopping and Map Results

Detect when ChatGPT returns shopping product cards or map-based results for location queries.

Web Search Control

Use web_search to allow or disable live web search and web_search_triggered to know whether a search actually ran.

Request methods

The Bright Data Scraper API supports two request methods. Choose based on your volume and latency needs.

Method	Endpoint	Best for
Synchronous	`/scrape`	Real-time lookups, up to 20 URLs
Asynchronous	`/trigger`	Batch jobs, 20 or more URLs, production pipelines

Learn more in Understanding sync vs. async requests. Both endpoints accept the inputs as a bare JSON array, which is what every example on this page uses, or as an object with an input array. Use the object form when you also send custom_output_fields or limit_per_input on either endpoint, or a deliver block on /trigger. See Request body.

Capabilities and limits

Capability	Detail
Output formats	JSON, NDJSON, CSV
Max URLs per sync request	20
Max URLs per async request	Unlimited, up to 1 GB of input per job
Data freshness	Real-time (scraped on demand)
Delivery options	API download, webhook, Amazon S3, Snowflake, Azure, GCS (all destinations)
Pricing	Pay per successful record (see pricing)

Which other AI answer engines have a scraper

The scraper library also covers five other engines. Each takes a prompt and returns the answer with its citations; each link opens the scraper in the Control Panel, and each country list says where the engine can be targeted.

Engine	Scraper	Country list
Perplexity	Open in the Control Panel	Countries
Gemini	Open in the Control Panel	Countries, European countries not available
Copilot	Open in the Control Panel	Countries
Google AI Mode	Open in the Control Panel	Countries
Grok	Currently unavailable	Countries

ChatGPT’s own country list is on GitHub. Web search control differs by engine: ChatGPT and Grok take the web_search input, Gemini decides on its own. See Query fan-out and web search control.

Common questions

Is the data scraped in real time?

Yes. Each request triggers a live ChatGPT search session. There is no cached or stale data. Processing time varies with prompt complexity, whether web search is enabled and scraper workload. The Bright Data ChatGPT Scraper API does not publish a fixed response time. A synchronous request waits up to 1 minute, then returns HTTP 202 with a snapshot_id and continues asynchronously.

Why do response times change over time?

OpenAI changes how its pages are served, and the Bright Data ChatGPT Scraper API collectors are updated to match. A collector update can change how long a scrape takes even when the success rate stays the same. For production workloads, build against the async workflow or webhook delivery so a longer run does not break the integration.

Can I maintain conversation context across requests?

No. Each request starts a fresh ChatGPT session. There is no memory or context carried over between requests. To ask a follow-up question within a single request, use the additional_prompt field.

How is this different from scraping using proxies or Web Unlocker API?

When scraping using proxies or Web Unlocker API, you still need to write and maintain your own parsing logic and update it whenever the target site changes its page structure. The Bright Data Scraper API handles the entire stack: proxy rotation, anti-bot bypassing and parsing. You send a URL or keyword and get clean, structured JSON back, with no scraping infrastructure or parser maintenance on your end.

Next steps

Quickstart

Search ChatGPT with your first prompt in 5 minutes.

Endpoints

One request per endpoint, each with a captured response.

API reference

Endpoint specs, parameters, and response schemas.

Get started

Data extraction

AI training data

Proxy networks

How it works

What the response looks like

Which capabilities are supported

Search with Citations

Follow-up Prompts

Shopping and Map Results

Web Search Control

Request methods

Capabilities and limits

Which other AI answer engines have a scraper

Common questions

Is the data scraped in real time?

Why do response times change over time?

Can I maintain conversation context across requests?

How is this different from scraping using proxies or Web Unlocker API?

Next steps

Quickstart

Endpoints

API reference

​How it works

​What the response looks like

​Which capabilities are supported

Search with Citations

Follow-up Prompts

Shopping and Map Results

Web Search Control

​Request methods

​Capabilities and limits

​Which other AI answer engines have a scraper

​Common questions

​Is the data scraped in real time?

​Why do response times change over time?

​Can I maintain conversation context across requests?

​How is this different from scraping using proxies or Web Unlocker API?

​Next steps

Quickstart

Endpoints

API reference

How it works

What the response looks like

Which capabilities are supported

Request methods

Capabilities and limits

Which other AI answer engines have a scraper

Common questions

Is the data scraped in real time?

Why do response times change over time?

Can I maintain conversation context across requests?

How is this different from scraping using proxies or Web Unlocker API?

Next steps