mckaywrigley/clarity-ai

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1418 stars · 273 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Clarity AI is an open-source clone of Perplexity.ai that answers user queries by scraping Google search results, parsing the webpages, and using OpenAI's API to generate and stream an answer. It is a TypeScript web app intended as an educational example of building an AI-powered answer engine.

Use cases

• build a perplexity clone
• self-host an AI answer engine
• search the web and get an LLM-generated answer
• learn how to combine web scraping with OpenAI API
• stream LLM answers in a web app
• demo a RAG search assistant

When to choose

• you want a minimal, readable example of a Perplexity-style answer engine
• you want to self-host a simple AI search tool with your own OpenAI key
• you are learning how to build LLM apps that fetch live web data

When to avoid

• you need a production-grade search engine with rate limits, caching, and source citations
• you want to avoid scraping Google (fragile and against ToS)
• you need follow-up conversations or modern model support out of the box

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

web-scraping search-engine llm-inference rag chatbot http-server artificial-intelligence large-language-models web-development cross-platform perplexity-clone openai answer-engine nextjs streaming demo-app search retrieval-augmented-generation nodejs web-server

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