fix(perplexity): handle missing group in API response by malhobayyeb · Pull Request #462 · robinebers/openusage

malhobayyeb · 2026-05-11T04:31:16Z

Fixes #278.

Perplexity changed their API to return an empty list from the /groups endpoint for regular PRO users. This fix modifies the plugin to fetch the user plan from the /api/user endpoint instead, preventing a total connection failure, and allows the flow to proceed without a group object if rate limit data is available.

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A screenshot demonstrating the successful fix (showing the rate limit details without the 'Unable to connect' error) has been provided and verified locally.

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Summary by cubic

Handle empty /groups responses for Perplexity PRO users by reading the plan from /api/user (with a trailing-slash fallback) and continuing when rate-limit data exists without a group. Adds tests to cover this flow.

Bug Fixes
- Fetch user from /api/user or /api/user/ and use subscription_tier in detectPlanLabel as a fallback.
- Only fetch group details and usage analytics when a groupId exists.
- Relax connection check to proceed if user or rateLimits are present when group is missing.
- Guard balance and usage reads when group is null.

^{Written for commit f5707e7. Summary will update on new commits.}

Perplexity changed their API to return an empty list from the /groups endpoint for regular PRO users. This fix modifies the plugin to fetch the user plan from the /api/user endpoint instead, preventing a total connection failure, and allows the flow to proceed without a group object if rate limit data is available.

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malhobayyeb · 2026-05-11T04:33:15Z

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the Perplexity plugin to tolerate Perplexity’s API change where /groups may return an empty list for regular PRO users, by fetching plan details from /api/user and allowing the probe flow to proceed when group data is missing but rate-limit data is available.

Changes:

Extend plan detection to fall back to /api/user when group customerInfo is unavailable.
Make group and usage-analytics fetching conditional on the presence of a group id instead of hard-failing.
Relax the “Unable to connect” guard so the plugin can still render rate-limit lines without a group object.

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    const authToken = session && session.authToken
    if (!authToken) return null
    const restHeaders = makeRestHeaderOverrides(session)
+    const user = fetchJsonOptional(ctx, LOCAL_USER_ENDPOINT, authToken, restHeaders)


    const restState = fetchRestState(ctx, session)
-    if (!restState || !restState.group) throw "Unable to connect. Try again later."
+    if (!restState || (!restState.group && !restState.user && !restState.rateLimits)) throw "Unable to connect. Try again later."

    const customerInfo = restState.group && restState.group.customerInfo
-    const plan = detectPlanLabel(customerInfo)
+    const plan = detectPlanLabel(customerInfo, restState.user)

    const dollarLines = []
-    const balanceUsd = readBalanceUsd(restState.group)
+    const balanceUsd = restState.group ? readBalanceUsd(restState.group) : null


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malhobayyeb · 2026-05-14T17:39:47Z

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Addressed the two open Copilot threads:

Added /api/user/ fallback after the exact /api/user request.
Added a regression test for empty /groups plus /api/user/ plan fallback and rate-limit rendering.
Verified no group detail or usage analytics request is made when groups are empty.

Verification:

bun run test plugins/perplexity/plugin.test.js --run
bun run test --run
git diff --check origin/main...HEAD

malhobayyeb · 2026-05-14T21:01:22Z

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Update after final quality gating:

Pushed branch head is current: f5707e7 (fix-perplexity-api-change).
PR diff remains limited to plugins/perplexity/plugin.js and plugins/perplexity/plugin.test.js.
JS/CI gates pass:
- bun install --frozen-lockfile
- bun run build
- bunx tsc --noEmit
- bun run test --run (60 files, 1077 tests)
- git diff --check origin/main...HEAD
Rust gates still fail, but I verified the same failures reproduce on origin/main (de22ad6) in a detached worktree, so they are not introduced by this PR:
- cargo fmt --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml -- --check
- cargo clippy --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml --all-targets -- -D warnings
- cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml fails on plugin_engine::host_api::tests::ccusage_timeout_kills_descendant_and_closes_pipes

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