Perplexity API Documentation

This is the complete API documentation for connecting to the Perplexity API using MindCloud's Universal API. If you are new to MindCloud, start with the Introduction to see how one API can sit in front of many different apps.

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Meet Perplexity: Access Perplexity’s Search, Sonar, Agent, and Embeddings APIs for web search, grounded answers, multi-provider agent responses, and vector generation. Keep reading to get started.

Quickstart

Before you run your first Perplexity request, you need three things:

1. A MindCloud account — sign in or create an account at MindCloud.
2. A MindCloud API Key — create one in API Keys. Keep it on your server.
3. At least one Perplexity connection — create or choose one in Connections. Note its connectionId.

Every Perplexity action uses the same URL pattern:

POST https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/perplexity/actions/{actionSlug}/run

You need a MindCloud API Key and a Perplexity connection. Then call an action such as List Models:

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v2/universal/apps/perplexity/actions/list-models/run" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "connectionId": "$CONNECTION_ID",
  "arguments": {}
}'

Every response comes back in the same envelope, with your rows in a data array:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    { "id": "1042", "name": "Ava" }
  ],
  "meta": {}
}

After your first request works, use Shape your requests to control arguments, pagination, filtering, fields, and errors.

Authenticate with a MindCloud API Key plus a connectionId for your Perplexity account. See Perplexity API Authentication for the full flow and how to get your connection credentials.

Perplexity actions

All 11 published actions for this Perplexity version. Each page documents the endpoint, arguments, and response controls.

• POSTCreate Agent Response
• POSTCreate Async Chat Completion
• POSTCreate Chat Completion
• POSTCreate Contextualized Embeddings
• POSTCreate Embeddings
• POSTGenerate Auth Token
• GETGet Async Chat Completion
• GETList Async Chat Completions
• GETList Models
• DELETERevoke Auth Token
• GETSearch the Web

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