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Asks Perplexity AI questions and returns the answer with its cited sources.

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Perplexity Scraper

Ask Perplexity AI a question and get the answer with its cited sources.

Give this scraper a list of questions and it returns Perplexity's AI answer for each, along with the sources it cited — full source URLs, their domains, and the cited-domain list. It waits for each answer to finish generating, expands the sources panel, and returns clean structured JSON. It suits research automation, source discovery, competitive and market monitoring, and feeding AI-answer data with citations into your own pipelines.

⚡ Quick start

{
  "queries": [
    "When was OpenAI founded and by whom?",
    "What are the latest James Webb telescope discoveries?"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}

🧩 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`queries`	array	yes*	—	Questions to ask Perplexity. One entry per question.
`startUrls`	array	no	—	Perplexity search URLs to scrape directly, e.g. `https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q=example`. Use instead of `queries` for full control.
`maxItems`	integer	yes	`10`	Maximum number of questions to answer in this run.
`proxyConfiguration`	object	no	Residential	Proxy settings. Perplexity sits behind Cloudflare, so residential proxies are the default.

* Provide either queries or startUrls.

📤 Output

Each question becomes one dataset item: the answer text, the list of cited sources with their URLs and domains, and the flat list of cited domains. Perplexity's answer is an AI synthesis, so treat answer as a summary and use the sources for anything you need to verify or process further. Fields a question does not produce are returned as null or an empty array rather than omitted.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
`query`	string	The question that was asked.
`url`	string	The Perplexity thread URL for the answer.
`answer`	string	Perplexity's AI answer text.
`sources`	array	Cited sources, each `{ url, domain, snippet }`.
`citedDomains`	array	Flat list of unique domains Perplexity cited.
`sourceCount`	number	Number of sources returned.
`fetchedAt`	string	When the answer was scraped, ISO 8601.

💡 Use cases

Automate research on a topic and keep the sources Perplexity cited.
Discover authoritative pages for a company or subject, then fetch them for full detail.
Monitor how questions about a brand or product are answered over time.
Feed AI answers with citations into knowledge bases and LLM pipelines.
Collect a domain list of what Perplexity considers credible for a topic.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a proxy? Yes. Perplexity sits behind Cloudflare and blocks datacenter traffic, so residential proxies are the default and strongly recommended.
Are the answers reliable? The answer is an AI synthesis and can be incomplete or wrong, so use it as a summary. The sources are the pages Perplexity cited — use those to verify or to fetch full content.
Why are source snippets a mix of title and description? They are taken from the source cards as Perplexity displays them. The url and domain are always clean; fetch the page itself for a precise title and body.
What happens if Perplexity shows a Cloudflare challenge? The scraper detects it, retires that session, and retries on a fresh one. If every attempt is blocked it fails with a clear error rather than returning the challenge page as an answer.
Can I control the AI model or mode? No. It uses Perplexity's default search answer, the same one an anonymous visitor sees.

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