PerplexityBot
Operated by Perplexity · Builds a search index
If you block it
You stop being linked in Perplexity’s answers.
What Perplexity says it is for
Designed to surface and link websites in search results on Perplexity. Perplexity states it is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models.
Published details
- robots.txt
- Treats robots.txt as the opt-out, without saying it respects it“The documentation asks you to allow it in robots.txt, but does not state that it respects the file.”
- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)Match on the prefixPerplexityBot/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/perplexitybot.json
Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots Read .