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Provides a minimal working example demonstrating how to integrate Perplexity's API for web-grounded answers. Learn to perform advanced searches, retrieve cited sources, and handle features like domain filtering and streaming using both TypeScript and Python. Ideal for integrating real-time, source-backed search functionality into applications.

This comprehensive runbook provides step-by-step procedures for rapidly responding to Perplexity API outages and service degradations. It covers initial triage (checking models, auth, DNS), handling common errors (401, 429, 500/503), implementing fallbacks, and structured post-incident activities, including evidence collection and postmortem documentation.

This guide provides comprehensive instructions for installing and configuring the Perplexity Sonar API authentication. It details setting up the necessary environment variables and using the standard OpenAI client library (for both Node.js and Python) to connect to Perplexity's API endpoint. Learning this process is essential for developers starting a new Perplexity integration, setting up API keys, or verifying API connectivity.

A comprehensive guide to identifying and avoiding common integration mistakes and anti-patterns when using the Perplexity Sonar API. It covers critical best practices such as correctly handling citations, setting maximum token limits, utilizing recency filters, and optimizing API calls to ensure cost efficiency and data accuracy. Essential for code review and developer onboarding.

This skill provides comprehensive guidance on load testing and capacity planning for the Perplexity Sonar API. Users learn how to simulate high traffic volumes, respecting strict rate limits (like 50 RPM), benchmark latency, and estimate operational costs. It is essential for performance engineering, capacity architecture design, or stress testing APIs at scale.

A comprehensive guide and implementation for setting up a fast, cost-effective local development loop for the Perplexity Sonar API. It includes generating type-safe client wrappers, utilizing fixtures for reliable mocking, and establishing a complete test suite with hot-reloading capabilities. This ensures stable development and manages high API call costs during iteration.

This guide details the process of migrating search and LLM functionalities from legacy APIs (Google CSE, Bing, SerpAPI) to Perplexity Sonar. It demonstrates how to utilize the Strangler Fig pattern to build a robust adapter layer. The primary benefit is consolidating a complex, multi-step pipeline (Search -> Raw Results -> LLM Summarization) into a single, efficient API call, ensuring automatic citation handling and streamlined development.

This skill provides a comprehensive guide to configuring the Perplexity Sonar API across distinct operational environments (development, staging, and production). It details how to manage environment-specific API keys, enforce tailored rate limits, select appropriate models (e.g., sonar vs. sonar-pro), and implement cost optimization strategies. Use this when migrating or integrating Perplexity search functionality into a multi-tier, production-grade application architecture.

This guide provides advanced architectural patterns to optimize interactions with the Perplexity Sonar API. By implementing smart model routing, query hashing with time-to-live (TTL) caching, streaming responses, and rate-limited parallel processing, developers can significantly reduce latency, improve overall throughput, and manage API costs. Ideal for integrating complex, research-intensive search-augmented applications.

This comprehensive checklist guides the deployment of Perplexity Sonar API integrations to a robust production environment. It covers critical aspects including API key management, robust code quality practices (retries, rate limiting), performance optimization (caching, streaming), detailed monitoring setup, and cost control strategies. Use this checklist when preparing for a major Perplexity feature launch or going live to production.

A comprehensive guide and implementation examples for handling API rate limits (HTTP 429) when interacting with the Perplexity Sonar API. This resource provides multiple robust techniques, including exponential backoff with jitter, queue-based rate limiting, and custom Token Bucket implementation, ensuring reliable and high-throughput API calls for developers using TypeScript and Python.

This skill provides comprehensive patterns for building highly reliable applications that interact with external Large Language Model (LLM) APIs, such as Perplexity Sonar. It implements critical reliability techniques including Circuit Breakers, Model Fallback, Streaming Timeout handling, and Caching layers. Use this to ensure your application maintains high availability and graceful degradation even when external services experience intermittent failures or variable performance.