Short Dive into Perplexity API - none of the features... | Unscripted Coding

Perplexity is the premiere AI "search engine" that lets you leverage AI to search the web. You get citations for each of the sources it uses so you can see where the answer comes from. I was hoping the API from Perplexity would let me build it into my own apps, but I was feeling quite disappointed by the end of our short dive.
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Total Time: 17 minutes

[@warrenhuffman4821]

Great man thanks. The volume was kinda quiet on my machine you might want to bump it up.

[@jamesytvids]

You're not alone; Perplexity's API is terrible. Not only is their documentation bad and the descirptions of each model non existant, but the output is nothing like the Perplexity "Pro" search. It's almost as if the API only searches the first result and summarizes it in less than 50 words, whereas Perplexity Pro searches 10-20 results and is closer to 1,000 words. Pretty lame overall; it would be very powerful if we had a real API by Perplexity. I see some unofficial wrappers and scrapers which I am tempted to build out; but that's just lost revenue by Perplexity. Amateur hour!

[@UnscriptedCoding]

Thanks! It's not the greatest video in my collection but sometimes I think it's helpful for people to see disappointment in real time lol. No idea why they're still dancing around a properly functioning API, they seem to have good funding too. Check out Cohere's Command R, they have a built in web search in their API, albeit it doesn't work as well as Perplexity's interface.

[@fengshi9462]

Wonderful❤

[@aloisbachinger6328]

thanks for information - please could you prepare before you do a video - thanks

[@8eck]

Useless api... why they are not including sources/citations into it?

[@UnscriptedCoding]

That's my question as well. Not the most useful video but I was stunned.

[@jitesh_khurana]

@@UnscriptedCoding now they have included it. But it is in closed beta access.

[@MalekBenhalima-pq1oo]

Sorry but 0 added value from this video