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POST https://api.answerline.dev/v1/monitor/perplexity

Get structured output from Perplexity AI on your brand, your products or any other topic, in many regions

From $1.00 per 1,000 Failed requests are free Async task type PERPLEXITY Perplexity fields and prices

Body

prompt string required

Prompt submitted to Perplexity, up to 2,000 characters. A longer prompt is refused with a 400 that states its length.

country string required

Code of the country or region used to localize the response

include object

Flags that add extra output formats to the response (optional)

5 properties

include.html boolean

A link to the answer's own public page on perplexity.ai, in html, to check the answer against. No extra cost.

include.markdown boolean

Add a markdown version of the response to the result

include.rawResponse boolean

Return the answer as normalized stream events. For the engine's answer as received, use include.rawWire.

include.rawWire boolean

Return the engine's own response as received in result.rawWire: the answer stream, the rendered results pages or the RSS feed, without Gemini's detected location or ChatGPT's session tokens; null where it was not captured. Free. See https://answerline.dev/docs/output-formats#raw-wire

include.screenshot boolean

Return a full-page PNG screenshot of the engine's page as it showed the finished answer, in result.screenshot: a link, or one link per results page on Google Search. On ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode, Google Search, Perplexity and Grok; other engines refuse it with a 400. Absent when the answer was read without a rendered page or its page was not available. Free. See https://answerline.dev/docs/output-formats#screenshots

state string

US state code (e.g. "CA", "DC" included). Sent without a country, the request asks for the US; sent with any country other than "US", it is refused with a 400, uncharged. ChatGPT and Gemini answer as a person in that state sees it; every other engine accepts it and answers for the whole US, at the price of a request without it. provenance.requestedState reports the state asked. See https://answerline.dev/docs/coverage#states

answerDepth "any" | "full" | "quick"

Accepted so existing requests stay valid; it does not change the answer or the price. Every engine writes one depth: Perplexity answers every request with its Quick Search answer, and provenance.answerDepth says quick. See https://answerline.dev/docs/engine-features/#answer-depth

Returns

result.text string

Text of Perplexity's answer

result.html string

Present when include.html is true: the link to the answer's public page on perplexity.ai.

result.sources object[]

Sources the response cites

result.citationPills object[]

Citation pills that appear inline in the Perplexity answer. Every element pairs one pill with one source: a pill backed by N sources (bracketed groups like Perplexity's [1][2][3]) yields N elements with the same citationPillId, each holding that source's own label, url and domain. Grouping by citationPillId rebuilds the pills. Empty when the answer has no pills.

result.markdown string

Perplexity's answer rendered as Markdown (present when include.markdown is true)

result.related_queries string[]

Suggested searches to follow up with

result.videos object[]

Videos that appear in the response

result.images object[]

Image found in the response

result.hotels object[]

Hotels listed when the query shows travel intent

result.places object[]

The places Perplexity lists on its map for a local or lodging question (restaurants, shops, hotels), in its order. Absent when it shows no map.

result.shopping_cards object[]

Product cards for shopping with full product details (present when the query shows shopping intent)

result.search_model_queries string[]

Search queries the engine ran internally to build the response

result.rawResponse object[]

The answer as normalized stream events (present when include.rawResponse is true). For the engine's answer as received, use include.rawWire.

result.screenshot string

Present when include.screenshot is true: the link to the PNG screenshot of the answer's public page on perplexity.ai.

result.links object[]

The links in the answer's text, in the order a reader meets them: one entry per web (http or https) link the answer shows, images and code aside, with the words it shows (text), where it goes (url), its domain and its 1-based position. Sources cited by pills are in citationPills; links to the same page appear in both when the answer does both. Empty when the text links nowhere.

Responses

200

Perplexity monitoring result (success)

400

Bad Request - the request failed validation

401

Unauthorized - authentication failed

403

Forbidden - INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS: the balance does not cover this request

404

Not Found - No such route, or the engine is paused

409

Conflict - the resource is in a conflicting state

429

Too Many Requests - the call could not start now (CONCURRENT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED), or the service dropped the request because it was overloaded (SERVICE_OVERLOADED); that case returns Retry-After without any limit headers. RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED, with Retry-After, is sent only when one address presented too many unknown keys

499

Client Closed Request - the client cancelled the request

500

Internal Server Error

502

Bad Gateway - the engine failed

Error codes and retries