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Automate Perplexity

Put Perplexity's web search on a timer. Morning news briefings on your field, weekly notes on what competitors announced, and alerts when fresh pages appear for a search you care about, each with the sources attached. Describe the job to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running on schedule.

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Try asking

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every day at 9am, ask Perplexity for news about AI agents from the past 24 hours and email me a short summary with links. Skip headlines you sent me before.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Perplexity

Cited briefings that arrive before you start work, competitor news without the repeats, and a heads-up when new pages turn up for your query. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Daily

Get a cited news briefing every morning

Each morning you get the last day's news on your topic with links to the sources, without stories you've already seen.

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Weekly

Track what your competitors announced this week

Every Monday you get only the new launches, pricing changes and press about the companies you watch.

See how it works
Every 6h

Get alerted when new pages match a search

When fresh pages show up for your search, their links arrive in Slack within a few hours.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Perplexity, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Perplexity automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Perplexity should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every morning, ask Perplexity for news on three companies I follow and send me only what is new since yesterday.

For each company in my Google Sheet, use Perplexity to research what they do and fill a summary column.

Every Monday, use Perplexity to research each new lead in my Google Sheet, then send me the briefings by Gmail and a short version on Telegram.

Works with

Perplexity with the apps you already use

Perplexity finds and cites the information; the other app is where it gets read, stored or published, from a research sheet to a team channel or a blog draft.

Perplexity works with hundreds of other apps

Name any of them when you ask your assistant, and your automation connects them. Over 248 apps are ready to go, and anything with an API works too.

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic API
  • Google Gemini
  • Notion
  • Airtable
  • Google Docs
  • Discord
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • Reddit
  • HubSpot
  • SerpApi
  • Firecrawl
  • Apify
  • beehiiv
  • Ghost
  • Buffer
  • Microsoft Teams

Beyond chat

Have Perplexity work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Perplexity to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Perplexity

Perplexity connects with an API key from your own API Portal project. Billing for API calls belongs to that project.

Perplexity

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  1. Open the Perplexity API Portal at console.perplexity.ai and choose the project that should pay for the calls.
  2. Go to API Keys and generate a new key. It starts with pplx-.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for Perplexity.

Good to know

Perplexity limits that affect automations

  • API calls are billed per usage to the project the key belongs to. A Perplexity Pro subscription does not cover API usage.
  • Perplexity is moving its Sonar chat API over to the newer Agent API, so older automations may need to switch endpoints at some point.
  • Every scheduled run makes at least one paid call, so a check every few hours costs more than a daily one.

FAQ

Questions about automating Perplexity

Is my Perplexity Pro subscription enough?
No. The API is billed separately, per use, to an API Portal project. You need billing set up on that project for the key to work.
What does ClickRuntime do with my Perplexity key?
It sends your searches and questions to the Perplexity API on the schedule you set and reads back the answers and source links. It can't see your Perplexity app history or Spaces.
Will I get the same stories every day?
Not if you ask to skip them. Automations can remember which headlines and links they already sent and only pass on new ones.
Do I need another AI key on top of Perplexity?
No. Perplexity writes the cited answers, and any extra summarising or formatting uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan.
Can results go somewhere other than email?
Yes. Send them to Slack, Telegram, a Google Sheet or a WordPress draft, whichever you connect.
Is this a Perplexity connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Perplexity data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Perplexity while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Perplexity event.

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