Perplexity Releases pplx, a Single-Binary CLI That Puts Its Search API in the Terminal for Coding Agents
Perplexity has released pplx, an official command line client for its Search API. The tool returns grounded search results and extracted page text, all as JSON. According to its docs, it targets humans and coding agents equally. It is not a chat client. There is no conversational mode, no model selection and no synthesized answer. Two surfaces, one output contract The tool exposes exactly two working surfaces. pplx search web runs a live web search. pplx content fetch pulls a URL and retu
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Perplexity has released pplx, a command line tool that gives access to its Search API directly from the terminal. The tool runs two commands: one performs live web searches and the other retrieves cleaned text from web pages, both returning results as JSON. This matters for coding agents because the tool is designed to work in automated environments where agents need structured search results without conversational features or model selection. The tool includes cost management features like output truncation and file saving to help control token usage, charges $5.00 per 1,000 requests, and is available as a single downloadable binary for macOS on Apple Silicon and Linux on x86_64 and arm64 platforms.
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