Perplexity-User

Operated by Perplexity · Fetches when a user asks

If you block it

A disallow generally will not stop it — Perplexity says so plainly.

What Perplexity says it is for

Supports user actions within Perplexity: when someone asks a question, it might visit a web page to help provide an accurate answer. Not used for crawling or for collecting training content.

Published details

robots.txt: Says robots.txt may not apply“Since a user requested the fetch, this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt rules”
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)Match on the prefix Perplexity-User/ rather than the whole string: operators version these, and an exact match stops working on the next release.
Verification: Published address list: https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json

Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots Read 2026年10月12日.