ChatGPT Fanout Explorer

A bookmarklet that shows every search ChatGPT runs behind the scenes for a chat, live as it answers or on a saved chat, with the pages each search got back and which of them were cited. Read-only.

Install

Recommended: Drag this button to your bookmarks bar (Cmd+Shift+B on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+B on Windows shows the bar). It is short, so it survives any drag or paste, and it fetches the latest code from GitHub each time you click it:

Or copy this and paste it as the URL of a new bookmark (bookmark any page, right-click it, Edit):

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Standalone version

The same tool with all of its code inside the bookmark, so it never contacts GitHub. It is about 28KB, which some drags and pastes on Windows do not survive, so use the copy button and the paste route rather than dragging:

ChatGPT Fanout Explorer (standalone)

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The same code is on GitHub at github.com/oritsimu-new/fanout-explorer: chatgpt-fanout-explorer.bookmarklet.txt is this standalone version as a text file, chatgpt-fanout-explorer.min.js is what the short version loads.

If clicking the bookmark does nothing

Right-click the bookmark, choose Edit and check the URL starts with javascript:. If it is empty, short, or the address of this page, the drag did not take: Use the copy button and paste the code as the bookmark URL.
On a company-managed browser, bookmarklets are often blocked by policy. Open chrome://policy or edge://policy and look for javascript://* under URLBlocklist. A personal browser profile gets around it.
Console route, if bookmarks are blocked but DevTools is not: On chatgpt.com, press F12 or Ctrl+Shift+I, open the Console tab, paste the standalone code and press Enter. Chrome asks you to type allow pasting the first time.
It has to be a chat page on chatgpt.com, logged in, in the browser where you installed it. The desktop apps have no bookmarks bar.

Use

Live: Open a new chat in Chrome, click the bookmark, send your prompt. The searches appear batch by batch while ChatGPT answers.
Saved chat: Open the chat, click the bookmark. Chats you have read before show at once from a saved copy in your browser.
The prompt shows above the table. Click + on any line to see the pages it got back, ticks mark the cited ones. Expand all opens every line for a screenshot.
Click a column header to sort. Download CSV is one row per search, Download sources CSV adds one row per page underneath each search.
The Index tab explains every column, the Types tab every kind of search line. If ChatGPT rate limits you (429), the panel keeps what it has and retries later.

Sharing

Send a link to this page. Nothing else is needed. It works in Chrome, Edge or Brave, on chatgpt.com (not the desktop app), logged in, on your own chats.

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