japelsin / pplx

Online search from your terminal using Perplexity AI

Perplexity CLI

CLI for searching with Perplexity's API. Can also be used as a chatbot.

Prerequisites

• Perplexity account and API key. You'll be prompted for the API key the first time you run pplx.

Installation

With Homebrew

brew install japelsin/tap/pplx

From source

If you have go installed:

go install github.com/japelsin/pplx@latest

You could also grab the appropriate executable from releases.

Usage

Search

Search command. Most parameters allowed by pplx-api are available as options. The model is set through the config (see below).

Usage:
  pplx search [flags]

Flags:
  -f, --frequency_penalty float   Token frequency penalty [0, 1.0]
  -l, --max_tokens int            Token limit per request (default 1000)
  -m, --model string              Model to use (default "sonar-small-online")
  -p, --presence_penalty float    Token presence penalty [-2.0, 2.0]
  -q, --query string              Your query
  -t, --temperature float         Response randomness [0, 2.0]
  -K, --top_k int                 Number of tokens to sample from [0, 2048]
  -P, --top_p float               Probability cutoff for token selection [0, 1.0]

The API reference can be found here.

Config

Usage:
  pplx config [command]

Available Commands:
  path        Get configuration file path
  reset       Reset config
  set         Set config value