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How to scrape Perplexity data with Web Scraper API?

You send a POST request to Oxylabs’ real-time Web Scraper API endpoint using "source": "perplexity", include your prompt, and optionally set parse: true, search: true, and geo_location. The API returns structured metadata like the prompt and model used.

What data points can I collect when scraping Perplexity data with Web Scraper API?

The structured Perplexity output includes fields such as the URL of Perplexity's conversation, Perplexity model used to generate answer, the original prompt, the complete response, a list of queries related to the main prompt, a list of top cited sources with their titles, source, and URLs, and many more.

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