perplexitybot
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedThe official crawler for Perplexity AI, used to index web content to provide real-time, cited answers to user queries. Operated by Perplexity AI.
What is perplexitybot?
Perplexitybot is the dedicated web crawler operated by Perplexity AI to power its conversational search engine. It traverses the internet to ingest current information, allowing the platform to synthesize accurate, up-to-date responses for users. By indexing diverse web sources, the bot enables the engine to provide direct answers backed by verifiable citations.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls the web to maintain a comprehensive and fresh index of information, which is essential for the platform's ability to answer complex, time-sensitive questions. It processes this data to extract key facts and context, ensuring that the AI model can reference authoritative sources. Site owners can verify the bot by checking that the user-agent string matches 'perplexitybot' and that the requests originate from Perplexity's documented IP ranges.
IP ranges
Requests from perplexitybot 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 perplexitybot
Add a Disallow rule for perplexitybot 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 perplexitybot from crawling your entire site User-agent: perplexitybot Disallow: / # Allow perplexitybot full access User-agent: perplexitybot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows perplexitybot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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