I have a CSV file of IT companies. I want to use OpenAI API to automate the calls to the chat about each company in the entry. How can I use it for this? I want: for every entry of companies, OpenAI API will make a search, and return the category or industry it is aimed at for every entry … , O…

You’re right, for sure as per the second goal. But maybe for the first goal, I could send a single websearch with all of the companies list? I’m not sure if using websearch is even the solution I need.

You are charged per tokens (it might perform many multiple calls even with one request, multiplying the costs), also I’m not sure a single search would be successful. But you can try.

The web search function that OpenAI offers isn’t good for increasing AI knowledge. It is good for dumping out results in a chatbot session like a search engine. Here’s how you can automate your way through a CSV, making one API call per company that is extracted (supposing there is a unique column …

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Some models do support websearch, but it can be very expensive depending on the usage (like a big list of companies…).

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