I am trying to figure out how to have Chat GPT ask a question and then have it sort the answer into fields that can be fed to an API? For example: User is looking for a Honda Civic with less than 35,000 miles for under $20k. I'm not a skilled coder, so trying to figure this out. Thanks in advance.

the easiest way i figured it out is to have the AI respond in a json format. with two fields. Message + nextaction then you can take the next action and parse it into whatever api you are using. but you need to have the AI know how your endpoint works so it can generate a proper link. after that you can get the result. feed it into the AI and have it spit that data out in a well formatted way.

I appreciate the response but that is a bit over my head probably. No clue how to have AI respond in json format

in the system message you can define how it should respond. here is an example from my own bot

js
let gptThought = ` You must respond in a JSON format like this with no formatting:
    {"message": "Hello","nextAction": "askGPT"}
    // message is the text you want to send to the client
    // nextAction is the next action you want to take. It can be "askGPT" or "endChat"
    // AskGPT will ask return the client's response to the GPT-4 model
    // endChat will end the chat `

then i take the output and parse it on my end. Make sure to json parse the output

Hey @gorgeous-telephone-56581, thanks for the detailed suggestion!

if you don't have technical knowledge in coding it might be very hard for you to implement this yourself.

@brainy-planet-775, are the fields always going to be the same? In your example, the output could be:

json
{
 "manufacturer": "Honda",
 "model": "Civic",
 "priceRangeMax": 20000,
 "milesRangeMax": 35000
}

How do I instruct the AI to decipher what the visitor typed in and then use that in "get" format for a public API?

you need to inform the AI what the API expects. so Make Model Year or etc. and once the customer satisfies all the conditions it runs a flow to grab the data.

it's actually for a Zillow API and I am getting home data (I just didn't want to make the idea public on here) . So, I want the user to be able to say $500k house in San Diego with at least 3 bedrooms https://rapidapi.com/apimaker/api/zillow-com1/