# Date Range Filtering Capability for Search API

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/date-range-filtering-capability-for-search-api/1894>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** search-api\
**Created:** [October 8, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/date-range-filtering-capability-for-search-api/1894 "2025-10-08T14:25:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kundan\_S\_Rao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.perplexity.ai/kundan_s_rao/32/1274_2.png) [@Kundan\_S\_Rao](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/Kundan_S_Rao)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/date-range-filtering-capability-for-search-api/1894/1 "2025-10-08T14:25:25Z")

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## 🚀 Feature Request

**Add Date Range Filtering Capability for the Search API**

## 🔍 Problem Statement

Currently, the Perplexity **Search API** does not support filtering results by date range (e.g., articles published between specific start and end dates). This limitation makes it difficult to retrieve **time-bounded search results** , especially for use cases requiring **temporal relevance** —such as news monitoring, research updates, or building grounded LLMs that rely on recent information only.

For example, when querying “AI regulation in India,” I might only want results **from August 10 to August 12, 2024** , but currently, all time periods are mixed together, reducing precision.

## 💡 Proposed Solution

Introduce **date range filtering parameters** in the Search API.  
Suggested parameter names:

- `search_after_date`: (ISO 8601 format) – fetch results published **after** this date.

- `search_before_date`: (ISO 8601 format) – fetch results published **before** this date.

## 📌 API Impact

- **API Changes:** Addition of two optional parameters:
  - `search_after_date`

  - `search_before_date`

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**Author:** ![gkiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@gkiel](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/gkiel)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/date-range-filtering-capability-for-search-api/1894/2 "2025-10-13T16:07:49Z")

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We’re also looking for this functionality; it would be very helpful to do some pre-filtering before sending the query over and returning results that we know we already need to eliminate in our use cases. Filtering by a time period or date range would be right at the top of our wish list.

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**Author:** ![Kesku](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.perplexity.ai/kesku/32/898_2.png) [@Kesku](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/Kesku)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/date-range-filtering-capability-for-search-api/1894/3 "2025-10-22T02:20:43Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion! Date range filtering is on our roadmap, and we’re exploring how best to integrate it into the Search API. Stay tuned!