perplexity-cli

Chat with Perplexity AI in terminal

Table of Contents

• Dependency
• Installation
• How to use
• Want an alternative?
• Note

Dependency

• playwright-chromium
• playwright-extra
• puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth

Installation

npm i playwright-chromium playwright-extra puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth
npx playwright install chromium

How to use

• perplexity.js fetches result from https://www.perplexity.ai/:

$ ./perplexity.js "enter any text here"

• perplexity-labs.js fetches result from https://labs.perplexity.ai/:

$ ./perplexity-labs.js "enter any text here"

LLM sonar-medium-online is selected by default. Set the second argument as model name to select another model, for example: ./perplexity-labs.js "text" "codellama-70b-instruct".

Want an alternative?

Check out copilot-cli

Note

This script is designed to handle only one question and one answer at a time. The response is provided in plain text format, making it well-suited for quick answer in the terminal. It is not designed for a polished conversational experience, but rather for efficient command line usage with Perplexity AI.

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