bash script to query perplexity.ai

p.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# based off of https://gist.github.com/rauchg/c5f0b1dc245ad95c593de8336aa382ac?permalink_comment_id=4842642#gistcomment-4842642
if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $(basename $0) promt_to_send_to_perplexity"
    echo ""
    echo "  Requirements: PERPLEXITY_API, defined; jq and curl, installed; bash, version 3 or higher."
    exit 1
fi

function p() {
    local json_request
    json_request=$(jq -n \
		--arg content "$*" \
		'{
      "model": "pplx-7b-online",
      "messages": [
        { "role": "system",  "content": "Be precise and concise." },
        { "role": "user",  "content": $content }
      ],
      "stream": false
    }')
    # echo $json_request # uncomment to debug
    
    local json_response
    json_response=$(curl --silent \
		--request POST \
		--url https://api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions \
		--header 'accept: application/json' \
		--header "authorization: Bearer $PERPLEXITY_API" \
		--header 'content-type: application/json' \
		--data "$json_request")
    # echo $json_response  # uncomment to debug

    echo "$json_response" | jq --raw-output .choices[0].message.content
}
p "$*"