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Chat Completions

Generates a model's response for the given chat conversation. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • API key
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Perplexity account once, then configure and run Chat Completions from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "perplexity-chat-completions",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    perplexity: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    model: "Model",
    content: "Content",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Chat Completions inputs
Property Type Description
model Model string
The name of the model that will complete your prompt
Required
content Content string
The contents of the message in this turn of conversation
Required
role Role string
The role of the speaker in this turn of conversation. After the (optional) system message, user and assistant roles should alternate with 'user' then 'assistant', ending in 'user'.
Required

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
perplexity-chat-completions
Version
0.0.9
App
Perplexity
Authentication
API key
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes