Automate Perplexity Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData API Driver for ADO.NET is a standard ADO.NET Provider that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time access to Perplexity.

ADO.NET Provider

The ADO.NET Provider provides a SQL interface for Perplexity; this tutorial shows how to use the Provider to retrieve Perplexity data.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Perplexity data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Perplexity Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Perplexity.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Perplexity (see below).

Perplexity API Profile Settings

Visit the Perplexity API dashboard at https://www.perplexity.ai/settings/api to generate an API key.

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData API Driver for ADO.NET\lib\System.Data.CData.API.dll")
       

2. Connect to Perplexity:

    
   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIConnection("Profile=C:\profiles\Perplexity.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';")
   $conn.Open()
   

3. Instantiate the APIDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT RequestId, Model from AsyncJobResults"
   
   $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.API.APIDataAdapter($sql, $conn)
   $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable
   $da.Fill($dt)
   
   $dt.Rows | foreach {
   	Write-Host $_.requestid $_.model
   }