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title: "Perplexity Search"
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:::warning

This tutorial is a community contribution and is not supported by the Open WebUI team. It serves only as a demonstration on how to customize Open WebUI for your specific use case. Want to contribute? Check out the contributing tutorial.

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## Perplexity Search API

:::info

Perplexity Search API is just a search engine, as opposed to the Perplexity integration, which is using Perplexity's models (in combination with their websearch).

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### Setup

1. Navigate to: `Admin Panel` -> `Settings` -> `Web Search`
2. Toggle `Enable Web Search`
3. Set `Web Search Engine` from dropdown menu to `perplexity_search`
4. Enter your Perplexity API key from [Perplexity API Key management](https://www.perplexity.ai/account/api/keys).
5. Press save

:::tip

LiteLLM's `/search` endpoint uses the Perplexity Search API style - you can customize the API endpoint of Open WebUI's perplexity_search web search to point to your LiteLLM instance and use that for web searches!

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