Using ChatGPT to write a scraper API for ChatGPT
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![Me: Use Python and Playwright to build a Flask API which opens https://chat.openai.com/ and inserts text into the input box on it and then waits 10 seconds and returns the contents of the last div.ConversationItem__Message element on the page
from flask import Flask, jsonify
from playwright import sync_playwright
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/insert_text', methods=['POST'])
def insert_text():
text = request.form.get('text')
with sync_playwright() as p:
browser = p.chromium.launch()
page = browser.new_page()
page.goto('https://chat.openai.com/')
input_box = page.query_selector('input[type="text"]')
input_box.fill(text)
page.wait_for_timeout(10000)
message = page.query_selector('div.ConversationItem__Message')
return jsonify({ 'message': message.inner_text })
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjFZCPWVUAAJBoM?format=jpg&name=large)
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Inspired by github.com/taranjeet/chat which is the same idea but should actually work, because it includes the authentication step that I skipped
