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+# Read first to correctly work with the provided examples
+
+
+## Open Router
+1. Sign up for an Openrouter Account - https://accounts.openrouter.ai/sign-up
+2. Create an API key - https://openrouter.ai/keys
+3. Add API key to environment - `export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your key here`
+4. Add Openrouter API endpoint to environment - `export OPENROUTER_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` [See https://openrouter.ai/docs#format for potential updates]
+
+## Perplexity
+1. Sign up for an Openrouter Account - https://www.perplexity.ai/
+2. Create an API key - https://www.perplexity.ai/pplx-api
+3. Add API key to environment - `export PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=your key here`
+4. Add Openrouter API endpoint to environment - `export PERPLEXITY_BASE_URL=https://api.perplexity.ai` [See https://docs.perplexity.ai/reference/post_chat_completions for potential updates]
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+import os
+import instructor
+from openai import OpenAI
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
+from typing import Optional
+from instructor import Maybe, Mode
+
+# Extract API key from environment
+perplexity_api_key = os.environ.get("PERPLEXITY_API_KEY")
+assert perplexity_api_key, "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY is not set in environment variables"
+
+# Base URL for OpenAI
+perplexity_base_url = os.environ.get("PERPLEXITY_BASE_URL")
+assert perplexity_base_url, "PERPLEXITY_BASE_URL is not set in environment variables"
+
+# Initialize OpenAI client
+client = instructor.patch(
+    OpenAI(api_key=perplexity_api_key, base_url=perplexity_base_url),
+    mode=Mode.JSON,
+)
+
+# For direct reference here. See https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/model-cards for updates
+# Recommended is pplx-70b-chat
+models = [
+    "codellama-34b-instruct",
+    "llama-2-70b-chat",
+    "mistral-7b-instruct",
+    "pplx-7b-chat",
+    "pplx-70b-chat",
+    "pplx-7b-online",
+    "pplx-70b-online",
+]
+
+data = [
+    "Brandon is 33 years old. He works as a solution architect.",
+    "Jason is 25 years old. He is the GOAT.",
+    "Dominic is 45 years old. He is retired.",
+    "Jenny is 72. She is a wife and a CEO.",
+    "Holly is 22. She is an explorer.",
+    "There onces was a prince, named Benny. He ruled for 10 years, which just ended. He started at 22.",
+    "Simon says, why are you 22 years old marvin?",
+]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    class UserDetail(BaseModel):
+        name: str = Field(description="Name extracted from the text")
+        age: int = Field(description="Age extracted from the text")
+        occupation: Optional[str] = Field(
+            default=None, description="Occupation extracted from the text"
+        )
+
+    for content in data:
+        MaybeUser = Maybe(UserDetail)
+        user = client.chat.completions.create(
+            response_model=MaybeUser,
+            model="pplx-70b-chat",
+            messages=[
+                {
+                    "role": "system",
+                    "content": f"You are an expert at outputting json. You always output valid JSON based on the pydantic schema given to you.",
+                },
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": f"Extract the user details from the following text: {content}. Match your response to the following schema: {MaybeUser.model_json_schema()}",
+                },
+            ],
+            max_retries=3,
+        )
+        # Output the error or the result.
+        if user.error:
+            print(f"Error: {user.error}")
+        if user.result:
+            print(f"Result: {user.result}")