Hi community 
I’m working on a TikTok Data Scraping (competitor analysis) project using Make, Apify, Airtable, ChatGPT, and Google Docs. Here’s what I’ve built so far:
What’s working:
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I’m using Apify Actor to scrape TikTok data (15 videos across 3 keywords)
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I store all results in Airtable successfully
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ChatGPT module (GPT-4o-mini) is used to generate a structured marketing analysis report
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The final output is exported nicely into Google Docs
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Hashtags and video fields are shown correctly in the report
What’s not working (my key issue):
ChatGPT always generates analysis for all 15 videos, even though I asked it to analyze only the Top 5 videos with the highest engagement (Views + Likes + Shares + Comments + Saves)
What I’ve already tried:
- Tried sending the entire array (
{{25.array}}) into ChatGPT and asked it to analyze Top 5 only → ChatGPT still summarizes all videos.
- Tried formatting with
{{25.array; JSON}} → GPT responds with “Invalid JSON or missing data”
- I don’t have access to
Tools > Code (JavaScript function) because it’s not available in my Make plan.
- Using filter modules between Airtable → ChatGPT doesn’t help because it checks one item at a time, not whole array.
What I want:
- I want to pass all 15 video records into ChatGPT, but instruct it to analyze only the Top 5 based on the highest total engagement.
- Ideally, I want to solve this without using JavaScript, or find a workaround inside Make if possible.
Has anyone here managed to do something similar? Or is there a way to sort & reduce the array inside Make before passing it to ChatGPT?
Would love any suggestions or insights 
Thanks in advance!
Thananit
To get only the first 5 items from an array you can use the Slice function
{{slice("Your Array here"; 0; 5)}}
Hey there,
from the screenshot it looks like you are sending 10 videos one at a time instead of the entire array in one go. Can you share the different module setups at the moment?
Welcome to the Make community!
The module “Get Dataset Items” returns one bundle per result. This is a “List” type module. This means each resulting item will pass through each future module once, individually.
Combining Bundles Using Aggregators
Every result (item/record) from trigger/iterator/List/search/match modules will output a bundle. This can result in multiple bundles, which then trigger multiple operations in future modules (one operation per bundle). To “combine” multiple bundles into a single variable, you’ll need to use an aggregator of some sort.
Aggregators are modules that accumulate multiple bundles into one single bundle. An example of a commonly-used aggregator module is the Array aggregator module. The next popular aggregator is the Text Aggregator which is very flexible and can apply to many use-cases like building of JSON, CSV, HTML.
You can find out more about the other types of aggregator modules here:
Question: Which is the best aggregator do you think you’ll need for your use-case?
Example
Here is an example of how your scenario could look like:
This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements and actual data.
For more information, see “Mapping with arrays” in the Help Centre. You should also do the Make Academy, which also covers the use of Iterators & Aggregators.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!
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Thank you for your advised.
No problem, glad I could help you with “How to make ChatGPT analyze only Top 5 items from an array in Make?”
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