AI answer engines
What an AI answer engine replies to a prompt, with its cited sources.
Sends a prompt to one of the public AI answer engines and returns the answer text together with the sources it cited.
This is how you monitor whether a brand appears in AI answers, and which pages the engines are drawing on when it does. Each engine is queried without an account, so the answer is the one an anonymous visitor gets.
The example response below is real output from this endpoint, not an illustration. Long lists and long strings are shortened to keep the page readable, and each place that happens is marked. This example took 29.5s.
Authorization
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Request Body
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Response Body
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curl -X POST "https://example.com/v1/scrapers/llm_chatbots" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "engine": "chatgpt", "prompt": "top hotels in New York" }'{ "request_id": "req_8f2c1d94e7b0", "success": true, "status": { "code": "OK", "message": "Scrape completed.", "retryable": false }, "data": { "answer_text": "If you mean **top hotels in NYC overall**, especially for a luxury trip, these are my strongest picks for 2026. Recent NYC hotel guides consistently highlight the properties below, with different strengths depending on the kind of trip. \n\n1. **The Mark Hotel** — ⭐ Best for ultra-luxury + Upper East Side \n Elegant, d… (+2423 chars)", "citations": [ { "position": 1, "title": "16 Best Luxury Hotels in New York City For 2026 | World-Class Hotels in NYC", "url": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/hotels/best-luxury-hotels-in-nyc?utm_source=chatgpt.com" }, { "position": 2, "title": "The Mark Hotel", "url": "https://www.themarkhotel.com/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=organic" }, "… 11 more items in the full response" ], "engine": "chatgpt", "prompt": "top hotels in New York", "prompt_sent_at": "2026-08-23T12:02:47.000Z", "search_sources": [ { "source": "Time Out Worldwide", "title": "16 Best Luxury Hotels in New York City For 2026 | World-Class Hotels in NYC", "url": "https://www.timeout.com/newyork/hotels/best-luxury-hotels-in-nyc?utm_source=chatgpt.com" }, { "source": "themarkhotel.com", "title": "The Mark Hotel", "url": "https://www.themarkhotel.com/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=organic" }, "… 11 more items in the full response" ], "url": "https://chatgpt.com/", "web_search_triggered": true }, "error": null, "meta": { "client_id": "client_abc123", "scraper": "llm_chatbots", "billable": true, "duration_ms": 28997 }}