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Use when implementing Perplexity integrations, refactoring SDK usage,
or establishing team coding standards for search-augmented generation.
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"perplexity code patterns", "idiomatic perplexity", "perplexity wrapper".
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name perplexity-sdk-patterns description Apply production-ready Perplexity Sonar API patterns for TypeScript and Python.
Use when implementing Perplexity integrations, refactoring SDK usage,
or establishing team coding standards for search-augmented generation.
Trigger with phrases like "perplexity SDK patterns", "perplexity best practices",
"perplexity code patterns", "idiomatic perplexity", "perplexity wrapper".
allowed-tools Read, Write, Edit version 1.12.0 license MIT author Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io> tags ["saas","perplexity","python","typescript"] compatibility Designed for Claude Code, also compatible with Codex and OpenClaw
Perplexity SDK Patterns
Overview
Production-ready patterns for Perplexity Sonar API. Since Perplexity uses the OpenAI wire format, you build wrappers around the openai client library with Perplexity-specific response handling (citations, search results, related questions).
Prerequisites
openai package installed (npm install openai or pip install openai)API key configured in PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
Understanding of OpenAI chat completions format
Instructions
Step 1: Typed Client Singleton (TypeScript)
import OpenAI from "openai" ;
export interface PerplexityChatCompletion extends OpenAI .ChatCompletion {
citations ?: string [];
search_results ?: Array <{
title : string ;
url : string ;
date ?: string ;
snippet : string ;
}>;
related_questions ?: string [];
}
export interface PerplexityUsage extends OpenAI .CompletionUsage {
citation_tokens ?: number ;
num_search_queries ?: number ;
reasoning_tokens ?: number ;
}
let instance
OpenAI
null
null
export
function
getClient
OpenAI
if
if
env
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
throw
new
Error
"PERPLEXITY_API_KEY not set"
new
OpenAI
apiKey
env
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY
baseURL
"https://api.perplexity.ai"
return
Step 2: Search with Full Response Parsing
import { getClient, PerplexityChatCompletion } from "./client" ;
export type SearchModel = "sonar" | "sonar-pro" | "sonar-reasoning-pro" | "sonar-deep-research" ;
export type RecencyFilter = "hour" | "day" | "week" | "month" ;
export interface SearchOptions {
model ?: SearchModel ;
systemPrompt ?: string ;
maxTokens ?: number ;
temperature ?: number ;
searchRecencyFilter ?: RecencyFilter ;
searchDomainFilter ?: string [];
returnRelatedQuestions ?: boolean ;
returnImages ?: boolean ;
}
export interface SearchResult {
answer : string ;
citations : string [];
relatedQuestions : string [];
usage : {
promptTokens : number ;
completionTokens : number ;
totalTokens : number ;
citationTokens ?: number ;
searchQueries ?: number ;
};
model : string ;
}
export async function search (
query : string ,
opts : SearchOptions = {}
): Promise <SearchResult > {
const client = getClient ();
const response = (await client.chat .completions .create ({
model : opts.model || "sonar" ,
messages : [
...(opts.systemPrompt
? [{ role : "system" as const , content : opts.systemPrompt }]
: []),
{ role : "user" as const , content : query },
],
max_tokens : opts.maxTokens ,
temperature : opts.temperature ,
...(opts.searchRecencyFilter && { search_recency_filter : opts.searchRecencyFilter }),
...(opts.searchDomainFilter && { search_domain_filter : opts.searchDomainFilter }),
...(opts.returnRelatedQuestions && { return_related_questions : true }),
...(opts.returnImages && { return_images : true }),
} as any )) as unknown as PerplexityChatCompletion ;
return {
answer : response.choices [0 ].message .content || "" ,
citations : response.citations || [],
relatedQuestions : response.related_questions || [],
usage : {
promptTokens : response.usage ?.prompt_tokens || 0 ,
completionTokens : response.usage ?.completion_tokens || 0 ,
totalTokens : response.usage ?.total_tokens || 0 ,
citationTokens : (response.usage as any )?.citation_tokens ,
searchQueries : (response.usage as any )?.num_search_queries ,
},
model : response.model ,
};
}
Step 3: Retry with Exponential Backoff
export async function withRetry<T>(
operation : () => Promise <T>,
opts = { maxRetries : 3 , baseDelayMs : 1000 , maxDelayMs : 30000 }
): Promise <T> {
for (let attempt = 0 ; attempt <= opts.maxRetries ; attempt++) {
try {
return await operation ();
} catch (err : any ) {
if (attempt === opts.maxRetries ) throw err;
const status = err.status || err.response ?.status ;
if (status && status !== 429 && status !== 408 && status < 500 ) throw err;
const delay = Math .min (
opts.baseDelayMs * Math .pow (2 , attempt) + Math .random () * 500 ,
opts.maxDelayMs
);
await new Promise ((r ) => setTimeout (r, delay));
}
}
throw new Error ("Unreachable" );
}
const result = await withRetry (() =>
search ("latest AI developments" , { model : "sonar-pro" })
);
Step 4: Python Patterns
import os, hashlib, json
from openai import OpenAI
from functools import lru_cache
@lru_cache(maxsize=1 )
def get_client () -> OpenAI:
return OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["PERPLEXITY_API_KEY" ],
base_url="https://api.perplexity.ai" ,
)
def search (
query: str ,
model: str = "sonar" ,
system_prompt: str | None = None ,
max_tokens: int | None = None ,
search_recency_filter: str | None = None ,
search_domain_filter: list [str ] | None = None ,
) -> dict :
client = get_client()
messages = []
if system_prompt:
messages.append({"role" : "system" , "content" : system_prompt})
messages.append({"role" : "user" , "content" : query})
kwargs = {"model" : model, "messages" : messages}
if max_tokens:
kwargs["max_tokens" ] = max_tokens
if search_recency_filter:
kwargs["search_recency_filter" ] = search_recency_filter
if search_domain_filter:
kwargs["search_domain_filter" ] = search_domain_filter
response = client.chat.completions.create(**kwargs)
raw = response.model_dump()
return {
"answer" : response.choices[0 ].message.content,
"citations" : raw.get("citations" , []),
"usage" : {
"prompt_tokens" : response.usage.prompt_tokens,
"completion_tokens" : response.usage.completion_tokens,
"total_tokens" : response.usage.total_tokens,
},
"model" : response.model,
}
Step 5: Citation Formatter
export function formatCitationsAsMarkdown (
answer : string ,
citations : string []
): string {
let formatted = answer;
citations.forEach ((url, i ) => {
const marker = `[${i + 1 } ]` ;
formatted = formatted.replaceAll (marker, `${i + 1 } ` );
});
return formatted;
}
export function formatCitationsAsFootnotes (
answer : string ,
citations : string []
): string {
const footnotes = citations
.map ((url, i ) => `[${i + 1 } ]: ${url} ` )
.join ("\n" );
return `${answer} \n\n---\n${footnotes} ` ;
}
Error Handling Pattern Use Case Benefit Typed response wrapper All API calls Access citations without any casts Retry with backoff Transient failures Handles 429 rate limits gracefully Citation formatter User-facing output Converts [1] markers to clickable links Python @lru_cache Client reuse Single client instance across calls
Output
Type-safe Perplexity client with full response typing
Search function with all Perplexity-specific parameters
Automatic retry with exponential backoff and jitter
Citation formatting utilities
Resources
Next Steps Apply patterns in perplexity-core-workflow-a for real-world usage.
