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Perplexity Search Links Scraper

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Scrapes source links / citations that back Perplexity's AI answers (perplexity.ai/search). Extracts the full canonical link-vertical schema: title, URL, domain, favicon, citation index, source name, snippet, author, published date, and metadata about how the source was used in the answer.

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from $1.99 / 1,000 search results

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12 days ago

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3.0.0

Aligned Apify, Crawlee, Playwright, Docker, lockfile, and local Firefox versions.
Replaced the stale 150-second answer wait with bounded Links-tab/source-card readiness checks, reducing a successful 10-record scrape to about 11 seconds.
Added current source-card selectors plus visible-text fallbacks and removed fabricated favicon defaults.
Added stable query-aware IDs, tracking-parameter canonicalization, rich query/locale context, recursive empty-value omission, and a required-field dataset contract.
Added single/batch modes, fair per-query quotas, concurrency/retry/timeout controls, sessions, consistent fingerprints, optional country-aligned proxy support, and explicit sign-in/challenge fail-closed handling.
Added four unit tests, linting, production dependency overrides, and QA inputs.
Removed the legacy writing focus value because writing mode does not produce source links; legacy web remains supported as an alias of search.

All notable changes to the Perplexity Search Links Scraper are documented here.

[2.0.1] - 2026-07-20

Fixed

Auth-gate placeholder rejection: added AUTH_GATE_PLACEHOLDERS allow-list and isAuthGateText() guard so when Perplexity shows "Sign up and repeat your request." (etc.) the run throws a typed BLOCKED error instead of pushing a half-populated source list.
Streaming wait before switching to Links tab: the handler now calls waitForAnswerStreamingComplete() so the Links tab reflects the finished answer (and full source list) rather than a partial in-progress view.

[2.0.0] - 2026-06-13

Added

Initial production release of the Perplexity Search Links Scraper.
Source link / citation extraction (title, URL, domain, favicon, snippet, author, date, thumbnail).
Citation index tracking — each link is tagged with the [1], [2], … marker index used in the answer.
Source type detection (web, image, video, social-media, academic).
Batch query mode via queries[] — one set of links per query.
Focus mode support (web, academic, social, youtube, reddit, writing).
Dedup by URL across queries.
Perplexity's Next.js SSR-friendly extraction — uses Playwright (Firefox) with stealth.
validate-datasets.js for local dataset output validation.
Dockerfile using apify/actor-node-playwright-firefox image.
README.md with full Apify usage guide.
Canonical normalizer in src/canonical.js (self-contained, no external deps).
Pair with perplexity-search-answers-scraper — the answer's citationIndexes align 1:1 with this actor's citationIndex field.

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Changelog

3.0.0