Perplexity Core Workflow A: Search with Citations

Overview

Primary money-path workflow: send a search query to Perplexity Sonar, receive a web-grounded answer with inline citations, parse and display the results. This is the single-query pattern used for search widgets, fact-checking, and real-time information retrieval.

Prerequisites

• Completed perplexity-install-auth setup
• openai package installed
• PERPLEXITY_API_KEY set

Instructions

Step 1: Initialize Client and Send Query

import OpenAI from "openai";