Perplexity · User-triggered fetchers · json
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
| robots.txt token | Perplexity-User |
| User-agent contains | Perplexity-User |
| Operator | Perplexity |
| Category | User-triggered fetchers |
| robots.txt | not governed by robots.txt (user-initiated, by operator policy) |
| Verify by | published IP ranges |
| Published ranges | 4 IPv4 + 0 IPv6 · json · source |
Fetches a page because a Perplexity user asked for it. Perplexity documents that this fetch is user-initiated and is therefore not governed by robots.txt — a robots rule will not stop it, by stated policy.
Not controllable via robots.txt. If you must stop it, verify by the published IP ranges and block at the edge — and accept that users who ask for your page get an error.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user
User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /
Operator documentation: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
Machine copies: json ·
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Policies that name this crawler:
allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · block-disputed · maximum-ai-visibility