Hi @Donf 

Good question.

We’ll need detailed screenshots to have a better understanding of the data you are trying to use and what you mean by “threads”.

Hi Troy, 

Thanks for helping!

Sorry maybe I am not using the word thread in the correct way. I am talking about a forum just like this one, full of posts (“threads” in the previous example). I have a list of link of these posts, of which I want to extract just the first message.

In this case for example, I would have:

1. A list of links, containing also the link of this post https://community.zapier.com/how-do-i-3/how-do-i-select-the-first-post-of-a-list-of-threads-25850
2. For each post I would like to extract the first message. In this case: 

Hi, 

I’m a medical researcher trying to create a zap for chatGPT and a medical forum for scientific purposes. 

Now, with a site scraper and Excel I created a list of links of different threads about the same topic.

I would like to run multiple conversations with ChatGPT, giving the same prompt and then the first post of a thread. I would repeat this process for each thread of the list.

Is it possible to select the first post of a thread and copy it in a sheet so that i can give it to ChatGPT with another zap?

Thanks in advance

Actually If possible I would like to catch also the first answer, in this case yours.

3. At this point I would create a zap triggered by google sheets (a post for each row) and executed by chat gpt. 
4. With the same prompt (in this case: “You are a zapier assistant, please help users”), Chatgpt would receive the first message of each post and try to solve the problem
5. At this point I should have a lot of answers of chatgpt on topics already answered by experts. 
6. Lastly I would compare the actual reply of an expert with the reply of chatgpt.

In the actual work:

• the list of links is this 

  

• Each link opens a different post (previously named “thread”) like this;

I sincerely hope that I've managed to make myself clear; please be patient, as English is not my native language.

Thanks in advance for all the assistance

You could try using an app like Quick Scraper, webautomation.io, or ParseHub for that purpose

Thanks for helping. It is exactly what I was looking for!