You're not alone; Perplexity's API is terrible. Not only is their documentation bad and the descirptions of each model non existant, but the output is nothing like the Perplexity "Pro" search. It's almost as if the API only searches the first result and summarizes it in less than 50 words, whereas Perplexity Pro searches 10-20 results and is closer to 1,000 words. Pretty lame overall; it would be very powerful if we had a real API by Perplexity. I see some unofficial wrappers and scrapers which I am tempted to build out; but that's just lost revenue by Perplexity. Amateur hour!
Thanks! It's not the greatest video in my collection but sometimes I think it's helpful for people to see disappointment in real time lol. No idea why they're still dancing around a properly functioning API, they seem to have good funding too. Check out Cohere's Command R, they have a built in web search in their API, albeit it doesn't work as well as Perplexity's interface.
