Package not installing with pip install git+https://github.com/nathanrchn/perplexityai.git

[laserman2000]

I get the following error on Google Colab and Binder

Collecting git+https://github.com/nathanrchn/perplexityai.git
Cloning https://github.com/nathanrchn/perplexityai.git to /tmp/pip-req-build-cswwt4hf
Running command git clone --filter=blob:none --quiet https://github.com/nathanrchn/perplexityai.git /tmp/pip-req-build-cswwt4hf
Resolved https://github.com/nathanrchn/perplexityai.git to commit d61c40b
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[Feya]

I have the same issue.

This is an explain from copilot:

The error message indicates that there was an issue while trying to install the package from the GitHub repository https://github.com/nathanrchn/perplexityai.git. Specifically, the error occurred during the setup.py egg_info step, which is part of the package's metadata generation process.

Here's a breakdown of the error:

Cloning the Repository: The repository was successfully cloned to a temporary directory.
Running setup.py: The setup.py script was executed to generate package metadata.
Error in setup.py: The script failed with a ValueError due to an issue in the set_requires method of the setuptools library. The error message "expected parenthesized list: '-client'" suggests that there is a problem with the format of the requirements specified in the setup.py file.
The root cause is likely a malformed requirement in the setup.py file of the perplexityai package. The set_requires method expects a parenthesized list, but it encountered '-client', which is not in the expected format.

[ablokr]

fix it
setup.py

setup(
name="perplexityai",
version="0.1",
description="A python api to use perplexity.ai",
long_description=long_description,
long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
url="https://github.com/nathanrchn/perplexityai",
packages=find_packages(),
install_requires=["requests", "websocket-client"]
)