From 2c5b5582710304073ecf6860049e23d8c5d08595 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Pereira <183991+ivanrvpereira@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:49:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Extract shared Perplexity API constants to src/constants.ts

PERPLEXITY_USER_AGENT and PERPLEXITY_API_VERSION were duplicated
in auth/login.ts and search/client.ts. Centralise both so updates
only need to happen in one place.
---
 src/auth/login.ts    | 3 +--
 src/constants.ts     | 2 ++
 src/search/client.ts | 6 +++---
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/constants.ts

diff --git a/src/auth/login.ts b/src/auth/login.ts
index 163e967..3cbce3a 100644
--- a/src/auth/login.ts
+++ b/src/auth/login.ts
@@ -4,14 +4,13 @@ import { promisify } from "node:util";
 import { AuthError } from "../search/types.js";
 import { errorMessage } from "../render/util.js";
 import { loadToken, saveToken } from "./storage.js";
+import { PERPLEXITY_USER_AGENT, PERPLEXITY_API_VERSION } from "../constants.js";
 
 const DESKTOP_AUTH_HELP =
   "Install the Perplexity desktop app and sign in, or set PI_AUTH_NO_BORROW=1 to skip desktop token borrowing.";
 const OTP_AUTH_HELP =
   "Provide credentials via PI_PERPLEXITY_EMAIL and PI_PERPLEXITY_OTP, or run interactively to enter email and OTP.";
 const AUTH_BASE_URL = "https://www.perplexity.ai/api/auth";
-const PERPLEXITY_USER_AGENT = "Perplexity/641 CFNetwork/1568 Darwin/25.2.0";
-const PERPLEXITY_API_VERSION = "2.18";
 
 const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
 
diff --git a/src/constants.ts b/src/constants.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13e517d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/constants.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+export const PERPLEXITY_USER_AGENT = "Perplexity/641 CFNetwork/1568 Darwin/25.2.0";
+export const PERPLEXITY_API_VERSION = "2.18";
diff --git a/src/search/client.ts b/src/search/client.ts
index c0efcb3..8f745d0 100644
--- a/src/search/client.ts
+++ b/src/search/client.ts
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ import { mergeEvent, readSseEvents } from "./stream.js";
 import type { SearchResult, StreamEvent, WebResult } from "./types.js";
 import { SearchError } from "./types.js";
 import { errorMessage } from "../render/util.js";
+import { PERPLEXITY_USER_AGENT, PERPLEXITY_API_VERSION } from "../constants.js";
 
 const PERPLEXITY_ENDPOINT = "https://www.perplexity.ai/rest/sse/perplexity_ask";
-const PERPLEXITY_USER_AGENT = "Perplexity/641 CFNetwork/1568 Darwin/25.2.0";
 
 
 function streamFromText(text: string): ReadableStream<Uint8Array> {
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ function buildRequestBody(params: SearchParams): Record<string, unknown> {
       attachments: [],
       frontend_uuid: crypto.randomUUID(),
       frontend_context_uuid: crypto.randomUUID(),
-      version: "2.18",
+      version: PERPLEXITY_API_VERSION,
       language: "en-US",
       timezone,
       search_recency_filter: params.recency ?? null,
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ function buildRequestHeaders(jwt: string, requestId: string): Record<string, str
     Referer: "https://www.perplexity.ai/",
     "User-Agent": PERPLEXITY_USER_AGENT,
     "X-App-ApiClient": "default",
-    "X-App-ApiVersion": "2.18",
+    "X-App-ApiVersion": PERPLEXITY_API_VERSION,
     "X-Perplexity-Request-Reason": "submit",
     "X-Request-ID": requestId,
   };