Collected data
Perplexity: citations
Available source links accompanying collected answers.
Collection target: perplexity. Field availability depends on the provider output shown below.
Understand the collected data
Chatbot responses expose sources with title and url. Google AI Overview sources appear inside aioverview when an overview is present. Source links do not prove which document a model read or which claim it supports.
Collected data
The perplexity target returns text, markdown, pageUrl and sources with the successful run identity and capture time. Source lists may be empty and response fields may be null. Perplexity may use operator-configured sessions. Availability depends on deployment configuration and provider behavior; no response or citation count is guaranteed.
Provider output examples
These are illustrative successful run excerpts, not full result files or calculated metrics. Submit POST /v1/crawl-jobs, track completion, then download the authenticated result. Outputs depend on the target; a chatbot has no news articles or Google position fields.
{
"runNumber": 1,
"runTaskId": "9a7536e7-b610-420a-a34c-5f829956f4d3",
"status": "completed",
"capturedAt": "2026-10-09T10:01:00.000Z",
"text": "Illustrative captured answer text.",
"markdown": null,
"pageUrl": "https://www.perplexity.ai/",
"sources": []
}Citations FAQ
- Does the API calculate citations?
- Chatbot responses expose sources with title and url. Google AI Overview sources appear inside aioverview when an overview is present. Source links do not prove which document a model read or which claim it supports.
- How should failed or empty collections be handled?
- Inspect per-target failedRuns and each successful run identity. Empty sources or null fields are valid output; a missing failed run is not an empty successful answer. A completed job can contain failed collections.
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