Perplexity CLI: Perplexity from the command line

Perplexity in the terminal

Sourced answers from across the web. We hold the key and meter it per tool.

Install the CLI, then connect Perplexity

GBrain holds the key for Perplexity, so there is nothing to sign in to. A key or a sign-in never passes through the terminal.

# Install the CLI
$ curl -sSL https://gbrainio.terminalwire.sh | bash

# Set the terminal up and connect it
$ gbrainio terminal connect

# What Perplexity is, and each of its commands once it is connected
$ gbrainio tool help perplexity

The installer is a shell script for macOS and Linux. Read it before you run it.

Every Perplexity command

This is gbrainio tool perplexity, run for real. The page and the CLI print from the same code, so the cheatsheet is what the CLI answers to today.

$ gbrainio tool perplexity
Ask the web a question and get a sourced answer.

USAGE
  gbrainio tool perplexity <command> [arguments]

COMMANDS
  research  Search the web with Perplexity
  open      Open its page in the browser

LEARN MORE
  gbrainio tool perplexity <command> -h  What one command takes
  https://gbrain.io/docs/tools           The manual

Same tools, any AI

Claude Code, Cursor and Codex reach the same Perplexity through MCP, on the same permission and the same record.

GBrain over MCP

How the whole thing fits

One level per application, one daily limit, one record, across every AI and terminal that asks.

Tools

More in Search and the web

Every application's command line

Perplexity from a terminal, with GBrain Tools

Tools is $19 a month for one person. Get Tools, connect Perplexity in the browser, and say how far each terminal and each AI may go with it. Change any of it, or take all of it back, whenever you want.

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