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Perplexity Scraper

Extract AI-generated answers, cited sources, follow-up suggestions, and knowledge summaries from Perplexity. Built on spider-browser .

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target
perplexity.ai
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/perplexity.ai/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/perplexity.ai/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://perplexity.ai/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "answer_text": "string",
    "sources": "string",
    "source_urls": "string",
    "follow_up_questions": "string",
    "citations": "string",
    "related_topics": "string",
    "query": "string",
    "timestamp": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from perplexity.ai with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

perplexity-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-web-scraping");
await page.content(12000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const result = {
    answer: document.querySelector("[data-testid='answer-content']")?.textContent?.trim(),
    sources: [],
    followUps: [],
  };
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-testid='source-card']").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("[data-testid='source-title']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const url = el.querySelector("a")?.getAttribute("href");
    if (title) result.sources.push({ title, url });
  });
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-testid='related-question']").forEach(el => {
    result.followUps.push(el.textContent?.trim());
  });
  return JSON.stringify(result);
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Answer textSourcesSource URLsFollow-up questionsCitationsRelated topicsQueryTimestamp
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Stealth

Rate-limit bypass

Distributed requests with fingerprint rotation to avoid IP-based throttling.

Parsing

Structured SERP data

Clean extraction of rankings, snippets, and knowledge panels into JSON.

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Start scraping perplexity.ai.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.