ChatGPT Search by Prompt

Bright Data

Collect an observed ChatGPT answer, citations and search sources.

Capability: AI search visibility
Current price: $0.0021/result
Availability: Ready to run

What this API does

Run one prompt against ChatGPT from a requested country. Returns answer markdown, model, prompt time, citations and search sources as observed by Bright Data. web_search permits the model to search; web_search_triggered reports whether it did. An answer without citations remains a valid observation, not evidence of zero brand visibility. Slow requests resume their existing collection snapshot within a four-minute window. Compare with other samples and inspect cited pages before drawing conclusions; this does not measure every user's personalized answer or prove why a brand appears.

Agents select this operation with tool ID brightdata.chatgpt-search, then inspect its current executable contract before a run.

Public input and output shape

Input

countrystring · optional

Two-letter country code, for example US or GB; normalized to uppercase for collection.

promptstring · required

Instruction describing the requested generated output.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 4096

web_searchboolean · optional

Allow web search; this does not guarantee it happens.

Output

answer_text_markdownstring

Returned answer text markdown value.

citationsarray

Returned citations value.

countrystring

Returned country value.

enginestring

Returned engine value.

modelnull

Returned model value.

promptstring

Instruction describing the requested generated output.

prompt_sent_atstring

Returned prompt sent at value.

requested_countrystring

Returned requested country value.

retrieved_atstring

Returned retrieved at value.

search_sourcesarray

Returned search sources value.

web_searchboolean

Returned web search value.

web_search_triggeredboolean

Returned web search triggered value.

Example request and output

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Request

{
  "tool_id": "brightdata.chatgpt-search",
  "input": {
    "prompt": "What is IANA's example.com domain used for? Cite the official source.",
    "country": "US",
    "web_search": true
  }
}

Output

{
  "model": null,
  "engine": "chatgpt",
  "prompt": "What is IANA's example.com domain used for? Cite the official source.",
  "country": "US",
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.iana.org/help/example-domains?utm_source=chatgpt.com",
      "icon": null,
      "cited": true,
      "title": "Example Domains",
      "domain": "https://www.iana.org",
      "position": 1,
      "description": "IANA",
      "answer_position": null
    }
  ],
  "web_search": true,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-07T11:01:38.153Z",
  "prompt_sent_at": "2026-09-07T10:57:53.311Z",
  "search_sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.iana.org/help/example-domains?utm_source=chatgpt.com",
      "rank": 1,
      "title": "Example Domains",
      "snippet": null,
      "date_published": "2017-05-13T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.iana.org/news/2024/example-domain-http-methods?utm_source=chatgpt.com",
      "rank": 2,
      "title": "Changes to HTTP service for example domains",
      "snippet": null,
      "date_published": null
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names?utm_source=chatgpt.com",
      "rank": 3,
      "title": "Special-Use Domain Names",
      "snippet": null,
      "date_published": "2012-07-06T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "requested_country": "US",
  "answer_text_markdown": "*   IANA’s **example.com** is a **reserved domain intended for documentation and illustrative examples**.\n    \n    According to IANA:\n    \n    *   `example.com`, along with `example.org` and `example.net`, is maintained specifically for **documentation purposes**.\n    *   You can use it in tutorials, technical documentation, sample configurations, code examples, etc., without needing to coordinate with IANA or worry that someone else will register it.\n    *   It is **not available for registration or transfer**.\n    *   IANA provides a simple website on the domain to explain its purpose, but explicitly says that this service is **not intended for production applications or as a testing endpoint**. IANA+1\n    *   IANA also lists `example.com` in its **Special-Use Domain Names** registry under RFC 6761. IANA\n    \n    **Official IANA source:** IANA — Example Domainsiana.org citeturn0search0\n    \n    Sources",
  "web_search_triggered": true
}

Teaching errors and limitations

upstream_error: The ChatGPT answer could not be collected.The wallet was not charged. A missing citation alone is not a collection failure.

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