# Search\_domain\_filter still not working

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/search-domain-filter-still-not-working/3044>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** search-api\
**Created:** [December 11, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/search-domain-filter-still-not-working/3044 "2025-12-11T19:56:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![polarbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@polarbear](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/polarbear)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/search-domain-filter-still-not-working/3044/1 "2025-12-11T19:56:17Z")

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Hi all - there have been several bug reports about the search\_domain\_filter feature not working at all. I’ve tested and it’s still not working.

> [@Search\_domain\_filter not working, getting citations outside my domain list](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/search-domain-filter-not-working-getting-citations-outside-my-domain-list/77):
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> Hi all, I’m trying to make a api request like this url = "https://api.perplexity.ai/chat/completions" payload = { "model": "llama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online", "messages": [ { "role": "system", "content": ( "Help find the latest news for the user through as many sources as possible. Compile " "it in an unbiased way" ), }, {"role": "user", "content"…

> [@Search\_domain\_filter issues](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/search-domain-filter-issues/113/2):
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> The OpenAI API doesn’t know anything about Perplexity’s parameters. If you are ever using the OpenAI API for another API, and the other API has unique parameters, you have to pass them in extra\_body. response = client.chat.completions.create( model="sonar-pro", messages=[{ "role": "user", "content": "What is the most recent version of Python?" }], extra\_body={"search\_domain\_filter": ["-python.org"]}, ) We know this works as well because…

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**Author:** ![polarbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@polarbear](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/polarbear)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/search-domain-filter-still-not-working/3044/2 "2025-12-16T23:26:29Z")

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Any update on this???