perplexity_chat: GET /
hasdata_perplexity_chat_getPerplexityAnswerGet Perplexity Answer
Sends a question to Perplexity anonymously and returns the answer as markdown text, plus every web page Perplexity cited in sources with its domain, title, snippet, publishedDate and citation number, the follow-up questions in relatedQuestions, a link to the thread on perplexity.ai in url, the model that answered and the country the answer was served from. Perplexity searches the web for every question, so usedWebSearch is normally true and answers come with sources rather than from the model alone. The language of the answer follows the question — write it in the language you want back, or ask for one in it. Set the frame of reference for words like "today" with timezone. Each request is a fresh thread with no memory of earlier ones. Use to answer questions with cited sources, to ground an agent or RAG pipeline in live web results, to summarise a topic with the pages behind it, or to build datasets of answers and their citations.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| prompt | Yes | The question to send to Perplexity, up to 4000 characters. The question also decides the language of the answer — write it in the language you want back, or ask for one explicitly ("Antworte auf Deutsch"). | |
| timezone | No | IANA time zone name, for example `America/Chicago` or `Europe/Berlin`. It sets what Perplexity treats as the current date and time, which matters for questions that say "today", "this week" or "latest". |