Domain whitelist not functional?

[maximilliansith]

Domain whitelisting is not functioning correctly - for example, if you pass "gecko.security" (a cybersecurity startup) as the target domain, it should only use this domain for citations but that is not the case. I used sonar reasoning pro and it used geckosecurity.com as its source and completely ignored "gecko.security". Can the API just change the domain? Don't see the point of specifying a target domain when perplexity can choose not to use it (lol). You only realize it never used your domain when you read through and it mentions it. Or maybe I'm just doing something wrong.

Thanks!

[testy-cool]

Having same issue. The docs say:

search_domain_filter: ["<any>"]
A list of domains to limit search results to. 

But it isn't restricting searches only to that domain.

[AidanShipperley]

Hi @maximilliansith & @testy-cool, are you both in usage tier 3?

Currently, the API will silently ignore parameters you provide if you are not of the required usage tier to use it. They had this documented on their API Reference page, but it seems they removed it for some unknown reason. I already made a post about the unclear documentation in January and the maintainer took action at the time.

@james-pplx - was there a reason that the helpful note on the API Reference page for parameters requiring a certain usage tier was removed? It previously clearly documented parameters that would not work unless the user was at or above a specific usage tier:

Several other developers also encountered the exact same thing, just look at the replies under this comment. I can only see this lack of documentation causing developers to assume the API is broken.

Thank you!

[james-pplx]

@AidanShipperley Thanks for flagging this. We are will soon introduce error handling for this as opposed to having it silently fail, but I will re-add that note right away until we deploy this.

[mmschweizer]

@james-pplx Any chance you could take a look at the API? Adding a note is great but we are on the high tier and it's still failing :/

Thanks!

[mmschweizer]

@AidanShipperley Hi Aidan, thanks for your reply. We are on the highest tier so unfortunately doesn't appear to be that :/

[mmschweizer]

We escalated to the support team. Hopefully fix coming soon!