I want to browse the web to find out about product descriptions. I have been doing some tests with ChatGPT 4o and it works fine. I have also been reading posts about this subject (browsing the web through API) and didn’t find a relevant answer. My questions: Does the API have new capabilities t…

You can find plenty examples of integrating the API with web search API. I intend to ask the AI to browse for a product, and then choose (among the 5 first results) the most complete description I would suggest looking into integrating the API with a search API using function calling https://pl…

Hi @Lalo ! You may also be interested in checking out this cookbook that explains how to integrate Bing API with OpenAI ecosystem and create a browsing experience. Bing API in particular gives you a certain amount of requests for free each month. There are other services like Brave API as well.

Hi @lior.boord , thank you very much for your reply. Yes, I have been using function calling in some other projects. I just wondered if OpenAI has evolved to some built-in solution (I guess it has not).

Hi @platypus , thanks for the link, it looks great! That should be the response :hugs:

Does anyone know if it’s possible to search more than one search engine via API?

The cookbook gives you the basic structure on how to browse the web, but I found in practice I got pretty bad results from this. Web scraping the page content is difficult as most sites don’t like to be scraped. Using the requests library will result in many 403 forbidden responses, because servers …

Does the API have new capabilities that allow users to browse for a specific subject (like a product name)? I believe the new Response API offered “tool capabilites” which allow you to search from the web: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-web-search?api-mode=responses I intend to a…

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faisal July 21, 2025, 8:48am 9

Thanks for sharing this. While it looks straightforward and simple, it may be costly in terms of token usage.

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