This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by sheep
In my previous post, I mentioned how I used Gemini to implement a one-click bookmark organization feature. The feedback for the feature was quite positive. However, recently I noticed an increase of errors from Gemini, such as occasional 503 errors, empty responses, or timeouts exceeding 1 minute.
I’m not sure if the issues are caused by the lengthy context when processing a large number of bookmarks, or the high frequency of API calls, or simply because I’m using the free tier of Gemini 2.5 Flash. I need some more time to investigate these issues, but before that, I'd like to give DeepSeek a try to handle the categorization and organization. I am very curious to see how it performs.
Using DeepSeek
As introduced in its official documentation, DeepSeek’s API can be called in various way, I simply used axios to invoke it. After obtaining a DeepSeek API key, I reused the same prompt originally designed for Gemini and created a DeepSeek version of the send function.
import axios from 'axios';
const path = 'https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions';
async function send(content) {
const data = {
"messages": [
{
"content": content,
"role": "user"
}
],
"model": "deepseek-chat",
"max_tokens": 8192, // max
"response_format": { "type": "text" },
"stream": false,
"temperature": 1,
"top_p": 1,
};
const res = await axios.post(path, data, {
maxBodyLength: Infinity,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.DS_KEY}`
}
});
if (res?.status !== 200) {
console.error('Failed send res:', res)
throw new Error()
}
const { message } = res?.data?.choices?.[0] || {};
return message?.content;
}
Switching from Gemini’s send function to DeepSeek’s required no other code changes, the replacement was seamless.
The Chrome extension is now available. I’ll monitor its performance for a while and see if DeepSeek offers better stability. Feel free to check out my extension Bookmark Dashboard, and try out the DeepSeek version of the one-click bookmark organization feature!
Thanks for reading!
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by sheep
sheep | Sciencx (2025-09-18T14:39:24+00:00) Giving DeepSeek a Spin. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/09/18/giving-deepseek-a-spin/
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