Perplexity with Pipedream

Pipedream is a workflow automation platform with 3,000+ pre-built app integrations. The Perplexity app lets you authenticate once and then call Perplexity's Agent API and Search endpoints from any Pipedream workflow — whether triggered by an email, a webhook, an RSS feed, a Slack message, a Google Sheets update, or a schedule.

The Perplexity app ships a Create Response (Agent API) action that runs an Agent API request — no code required.

• Endpoint: POST /v1/agent
• Inputs: a preset or model, input, tools (web_search, fetch_url), and optional instructions.
• Output: the Agent API response, including status, output, and usage.

Add it from the step picker by searching Perplexity → Create Response (Agent API).

For new model integrations, use a Pipedream Node.js code step to call the Agent API with your saved Perplexity connection:

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    perplexity: {
      type: "app",
      app: "perplexity",
    },
  },
  async run({ steps, $ }) {
    return await axios($, {
      method: "POST",
      url: "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/agent",
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.perplexity.$auth.api_key}`,
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "X-Pplx-Integration": "pipedream/1.0",
      },
      data: {
        preset: "low",
        input: "Summarize this week's AI research.",
      },
    });
  },
});

You can swap the URL to call any Perplexity API endpoint:

• /v1/agent — Agent API with third-party models and presets
• /search — raw ranked web results
• /v1/embeddings — vector embeddings

Common Perplexity-on-Pipedream patterns:

• Customer support automation — incoming email triggers a Perplexity Agent API step that drafts a response, then logs the conversation in a CRM.
• News-feed summarization — new article from an RSS trigger is summarized by Perplexity and posted to a Slack channel with citations.
• Brand monitoring — social media mentions are piped through Perplexity for sentiment analysis and entity extraction, then written to a Google Sheet.
• Daily research digest — a scheduled cron triggers a Perplexity query, and the result is emailed or posted to a chat channel every morning.

Pipedream stores your Perplexity API key encrypted at rest and injects it into every step via the $auth object — your key never appears in step UI or logs. You can rotate the key at any time from your account's Connected Accounts page.

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