Implementing ChatGPT History Search Capability

Bump. +1 for a Search feature. Creating new chats by default is actually kind of a negative feature, in that it disallows the ability to use ‘⌘ + f’ to find information from previous chats. I find myself asking the same question multiple times, because it’s easier than trying to dig through the dozens of chats that get created as a result of casual use.

Such a feature existing would certainly incentivize me to sign up for a premium subscription plan :wink:

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Your extension looks great. I’m trying to create one myself for learning purposes. I know you can download your data through ChatGPT, but I’m under the assumption that this is static, because as new conversations are made, I’d need to re-download in order for them to be made searchable. I’m not aware of any API specifically for the ChatGPT web app and I’m curious how you go about fetching all the conversations.

ChatGPT has a conversation list API. You just need to query the list and compare it with the existing list to get the newly appeared conversations. Hope it helpful.

https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/conversations?offset=0&limit=20&order=updated

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Awesome! Thank you for sharing

Just bumping this. A search feature would be extremely helpful

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The Easy Folders browser extension offers a powerful history search in ChatGPT AND Claude.

This is the Chrome extension you need, it’s a must for every ChatGPT user! :slightly_smiling_face:

+1 Bumping the thread. Search is a must

I’ve been so stressed and this feature is the actual reason why I started to create account on this community platform, Hoping that the feature would be available soon enough.

History search is a must! This leads people to asking the same thing over and over again because they can’t find the answer that they were already given. It has been over a year and search is still not implemented.

What is the difficulty?

Just take the text after every response, stick it in a database (I would guess it’s probably already doing that for other reasons). Run a full text index on that DB and add a search box to the web site.

This is perhaps 2-4 hours of work for a single developer.

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