# Perplexity Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/search-api/  
**Provider:** Perplexity — https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/  
**Base URL:** https://api.perplexity.ai  
**Documentation:** https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/search-quickstart

Perplexity Search API is one of 12 APIs that [Perplexity](https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Filtering, Ranking, Search, and Web Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and best-practice docs.

The Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain, language, country, and date recency controls, returning structured results with titles, URLs, snippets, and publication dates.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/search-quickstart
- **APIReference** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/api-reference/search-post
- **Authentication** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/api-key-management
- **Best Practices** — https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/search-best-practices

## Other Perplexity APIs (11)

- [Perplexity](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity/)
- [Perplexity Async Chat Completions API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/async-chat-completions-api/)
- [Perplexity Responses API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/responses-api/)
- [Perplexity Embeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/embeddings-api/)
- [Perplexity Agent API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-agent-api/)
- [Perplexity Async API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-async-api/)
- [Perplexity Contextualizedembeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-contextualizedembeddings-api/)
- [Perplexity Embeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-embeddings-api/)
- [Perplexity Models API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-models-api/)
- [Perplexity Search API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-search-api/)
- [Perplexity Sonar API](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/perplexity-sonar-api/)

## Tags

Filtering, Ranking, Search, Web Search

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/perplexity/search-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/perplexity/.