
Perplexity.AI Actor
Pricing
$30.00/month + usage

Perplexity.AI Actor
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.
1.0 (2)
Pricing
$30.00/month + usage
8
Monthly users
3
Runs succeeded
>99%
Last modified
2 months ago
Fails very often and takes quite awhile 2-4 minutes each run.
2024-08-22T07:36:35.988Z INFO PuppeteerCrawler:Statistics: PuppeteerCrawler request statistics: {"requestAvgFailedDurationMillis":null,"requestAvgFinishedDurationMillis":null,"requestsFinishedPerMinute":0,"requestsFailedPerMinute":0,"requestTotalDurationMillis":0,"requestsTotal":0,"crawlerRuntimeMillis":60690,"retryHistogram":[]} 2024-08-22T07:36:36.052Z INFO PuppeteerCrawler:AutoscaledPool: state {"currentConcurrency":1,"desiredConcurrency":1,"systemStatus":{"isSystemIdle":true,"memInfo":{"isOverloaded":false,"limitRatio":0.2,"actualRatio":0},"eventLoopInfo":{"isOverloaded":false,"limitRatio":0.6,"actualRatio":0},"cpuInfo":{"isOverloaded":false,"limitRatio":0.4,"actualRatio":0.173},"clientInfo":{"isOverloaded":false,"limitRatio":0.3,"actualRatio":0}}} 2024-08-22T07:36:39.733Z WARN PuppeteerCrawler: Reclaiming failed request back to the list or queue. Timeout Error: waiting for function failed: timeout of 20000ms exceeded. 2024-08-22T07:36:39.735Z {"id":"ZotIN5GPCzaMgM8","url":"https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q=Evalute%20the%20outcome%20of%20the%20following%20statement%3A%20Will%20the%20SCOTUS%20affirmative%20action%20ruling%20result%20in%20a%20universal%20ban%3F%2C%20made%20in%202023-07-10","retryCount":1} 2024-08-22T07:37:33.514Z WARN PuppeteerCrawler: Reclaiming failed request back to the list or queue. Timeout Error: waiting for function failed: timeout of 20000ms exceeded. 2024-08-22T07:37:33.517Z {"id":"ZotIN5GPCzaMgM8","url":"https://www.perplexity.... [trimmed]
demonstrative_nomad
retrying the same query by running the actor again works, but hoping for a better solution thats more reliable and ideally faster too. as cost incur for failing is not low as well.

Thanks for report the issue! Seem they change their site, just now I fixed it. Please try again with latest version 0.0.24.
demonstrative_nomad
Thanks it works better now, runs are now ~1 min+. Most of my initial runs work but at the end there's some weird behavior where it claims multiple results are being returned but viewing it only shows 1. there are a few failures near the end as well not sure why,
Here's an example of one of the fails below 2024-08-22T18:24:06.523Z ACTOR: Pulling Docker image of build HMr6kFCNLcnClmFPF from repository. 2024-08-22T18:24:08.559Z ACTOR: Creating Docker container. 2024-08-22T18:24:12.155Z ACTOR: Starting Docker container. 2024-08-22T18:24:13.535Z Starting X virtual framebuffer using: Xvfb :99 -ac -screen 0 1920x1080x24+32 -nolisten tcp 2024-08-22T18:24:13.541Z Executing main command 2024-08-22T18:24:14.534Z INFO System info {"apifyVersion":"3.2.4","apifyClientVersion":"2.9.4","crawleeVersion":"3.11.1","osType":"Linux","nodeVersion":"v18.20.4"} 2024-08-22T18:24:18.459Z INFO Configuring Web Scraper. 2024-08-22T18:24:42.187Z WARN 2024-08-22T18:24:42.188Z ***************************************************************** 2024-08-22T18:24:42.190Z * Web Scraper is running in DEVELOPMENT MODE! * 2024-08-22T18:24:42.192Z * Concurrency is limited, sessionPool is not available, * 2024-08-22T18:24:42.193Z * timeouts are increased and debugger is enabled. * 2024-08-22T18:24:42.195Z * If you want full control and performance switch * 2024-08-22T18:24:42.196Z * Run type to PRODUCTION! * 202... [trimmed]

Hi! Could you please give the inputs that make the tasks failed, so that I can check the issue easily.

I just do some test and it work fine. Some tips:
- Add multiple search terms into one task: this will run faster then do one by one. Remember to increase timeout if need
- Always using residential proxy
demonstrative_nomad
Sure, here are the tasks with fails and weird number of results below.
Failed https://console.apify.com/actors/OWZduFLjIazgQu9Id/runs/8Vlt1aHCa0P8Zmplq#log https://console.apify.com/actors/OWZduFLjIazgQu9Id/runs/o2dZYBDkEI16rbfcd https://console.apify.com/actors/OWZduFLjIazgQu9Id/runs/IsnF8wqHzBNNjaao6 https://console.apify.com/actors/OWZduFLjIazgQu9Id/runs/jvc9JcoScmfqrYhd8
Weird multiple results mismatch claims 3 results but clicking in shows 1 - https://console.apify.com/actors/OWZduFLjIazgQu9Id/runs/aSrEjpnDSlv3kRnEB claims 2 results but clciking in shows 1 - https://console.apify.com/actors/OWZduFLjIazgQu9Id/runs/uiJHAkRJ05ZyNb2lx
demonstrative_nomad
I'll will try multiple search terms and see how it goes. Thanks!
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Free trial
3 days
Price
$30.00