Searching Internet Page with API 4.0

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ChatGPT is different from the API. The former has integrated browsing capabilities while the latter hasn’t. To enable web search via the API you need to implement a function call and in your back-end then run a web search API (e.g. the Bing API). The results from this search can be integrated as context into the model prompt to generate the actual response.

To get started, you might want to take a look at the functional calling documentation here.

In the following post, I included an example function description for web search:

The Assistant API does not work correctly as the custom GPT does

I see. Well, in principle it should be possible to achieve all that with the Assistant if you are willing to do some coding. As said, you’d have to add a function call for web search if this is a critical component of your approach - in the current configuration of the Assistant, there is no way around that. If you are intending to give it a try, here’s any example of the function description for the Bing search. { "name": "BingSearch", "description": "Describe here under which circumstanc…