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Perplexity‑User

GoodBotVerifiedAGENT

Webmasters can use the following robots.txt tags to manage how their sites and content interact with Perplexity.

GoodBot
Assessment
AI Assistant
Category
AGENT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Perplexity‑User?

Perplexity‑User is an internet bot. Webmasters can use the following robots.txt tags to manage how their sites and content interact with Perplexity.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
Perplexity‑User
Category
AI Assistant
Kind
AGENT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
perplexity-user-4
User-agent patterns
User-agent string
Main use cases
Web crawlingData collection

Why it crawls your site

Perplexity‑User crawls websites to collect and process web content. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Perplexity‑User

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Perplexity‑User from crawling your entire site
User-agent: 
Disallow: /

# Allow Perplexity‑User full access
User-agent: 
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows . Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 26, 2026