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Perplexity-User

Visits a page when someone asks Perplexity a question, and may link to it in the answer. Perplexity says it is not used for crawling or to collect training data.

robots.txt name

Perplexity-User

User agent

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)

Category

AI answers: Fetch a page when someone asks an assistant about it.

Follows robots.txt

No. The company says that because a user requested the fetch, it generally ignores robots.txt rules.

Official documentation

https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers

Published IP ranges

https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.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: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

To allow it everywhere except one folder:

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /private/

This bot does not always follow robots.txt. To keep it out for sure, block it on your server or firewall by user agent and, where published, by IP range.

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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