The text is a comprehensive guide on using Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, for web scraping with Python. It explains the advantages of using Perplexity, such as simplifying data extraction from unstructured HTML content and adapting to dynamic web pages, making it useful for e-commerce and other complex sites. The guide includes a detailed step-by-step tutorial on setting up a web scraping project using Python, configuring the Perplexity API through the OpenAI SDK, and efficiently extracting data by converting HTML to Markdown. It also addresses the limitations of this approach, like being blocked by anti-scraping measures, and suggests using Bright Data’s Web Unlocker API to bypass such restrictions. The guide concludes by highlighting the benefits of integrating Perplexity with Web Unlocker API for efficient AI-driven web scraping, and it introduces additional Bright Data tools for enhanced web scraping capabilities.