Perplexity · Search indexes
PerplexityBot
Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity's search results. Perplexity says it is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models.
- robots.txt name
PerplexityBot- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)- Category
- Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
- Published IP ranges
- https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from Perplexity, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.
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