Perplexity.AI Actor
Under maintenance
Pricing
$30.00/month + usage
Perplexity.AI Actor
Under maintenance
Use the Perplexity.ai Scraper to extract information with AI. For example: "Find hotels in Prague that offer free breakfast and have a nightly rate under 1000 CZK." Export the results into a structured dataset.
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Pricing
$30.00/month + usage
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Total users
83
Monthly users
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Runs succeeded
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Last modified
3 months ago
You can access the Perplexity.AI Actor programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
$# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running<curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=jons/perplexity-actor"
# Session id example output:# event: endpoint# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Perplexity.AI Actor via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Perplexity.AI Actor within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Perplexity.AI Actor Actor with the provided input.
$curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{$ "jsonrpc": "2.0",$ "id": 1,$ "method": "tools/call",$ "params": {$ "arguments": {$ "runMode": "DEVELOPMENT",$ "searchTerms": [$ "What are the common symptoms of COVID-19?"$ ],$ "proxyConfiguration": {$ "useApifyProxy": true,$ "apifyProxyGroups": [$ "RESIDENTIAL"$ ]$ }$},$ "name": "jons/perplexity-actor"$ }$}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
$event: message$data: {$ "result": {$ "content": [$ {$ "type": "text",$ "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"$ }$ ]$ }$}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Perplexity.AI Actor
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
{ "mcpServers": { "actors-mcp-server": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server", "--actors", "jons/perplexity-actor" ], "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" } } }}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
