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"""
Perplexity Basic
================

Cookbook example for `perplexity/basic.py`.
"""

from agno.agent import Agent, RunOutput  # noqa
from agno.models.perplexity import Perplexity
import asyncio

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

agent = Agent(model=Perplexity(id="sonar-pro"), markdown=True)

# Get the response in a variable
# run: RunOutput = agent.run("Share a 2 sentence horror story")
# print(run.content)

# Print the response in the terminal

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # --- Sync ---
    agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story")

    # --- Sync + Streaming ---
    agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story", stream=True)

    # --- Async ---
    asyncio.run(agent.aprint_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story"))

    # --- Async + Streaming ---
    asyncio.run(agent.aprint_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story", stream=True))

​
Run the Example

# Clone and setup repo
git clone https://github.com/agno-agi/agno.git
cd agno/cookbook/90_models/perplexity

# Create and activate virtual environment
./scripts/demo_setup.sh
source .venvs/demo/bin/activate

python basic.py