Up And Running With Perplexica

Perplexica is an Open Source Alternative to Perplexity AI using the Searxng search API, which is an open source alternative to Google or other Search Engines.

bash

# Build the Docker image 
docker compose build 
# Start the container in detached mode 
docker compose up -d 
# View the logs to ensure everything starts correctly 
docker compose logs -f

bash

docker-compose up

For me, I wanted to modify the default port, as some of the development I do defaults to port 3000. So, my docker-compose fired up Perplexica on port 3030. http://localhost:3030

Using it via API

json

{
  "chatModel": {
    "provider": "openai",
    "name": "gpt-4o-mini"
  },
  "embeddingModel": {
    "provider": "openai",
    "name": "text-embedding-3-large"
  },
  "optimizationMode": "speed",
  "focusMode": "webSearch",
  "query": "What is Perplexica",
  "history": [
    ["human", "Hi, how are you?"],
    ["assistant", "I am doing well, how can I help you today?"]
  ],
  "systemInstructions": "Focus on providing technical details about Perplexica's architecture.",
  "stream": false
}

Install LM Studio

bash

lms server start