perplexity-user
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedThe user-agent used by Perplexity AI's search engine to fetch web content for real-time query responses. Operated by Perplexity AI.
What is perplexity-user?
Perplexity AI utilizes this user-agent to crawl and index web pages to power its conversational search engine. By fetching live content, the bot enables the platform to provide up-to-date, cited answers to user queries. It operates as a bridge between real-time web data and generative AI models, ensuring that information is accurate and sourced directly from the original publishers.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls the web to build a comprehensive knowledge base that allows Perplexity to synthesize information for its users. It processes page content to extract relevant facts, context, and citations, which are then presented in a structured, conversational format. Site owners can verify this bot by checking for requests originating from Perplexity's known IP ranges and can manage its access via standard robots.txt directives.
IP ranges
Requests from perplexity-user originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow perplexity-user
Add a Disallow rule for perplexity-user 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: perplexity-user Disallow: / # Allow perplexity-user full access User-agent: perplexity-user Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows perplexity-user. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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