Perplexity Hello World

Overview

Minimal working example demonstrating Perplexity's core value: web-grounded answers with citations. Unlike standard LLMs, Perplexity searches the web for every query and returns cited sources.

Prerequisites

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

Instructions

Step 1: Basic Search with Citations (TypeScript)

import OpenAI from "openai";