curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/perplexitybot.json   # this page, as JSON

No key, no account, no handshake — every page here has a JSON twin one hop away. Machine doors: 6 keyless GET tools · documents.json · changes · llms.txt · openapi.json · agent card · mcp · a2a

PerplexityBot

Perplexity · AI search crawlers · json

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /


robots.txt token	`PerplexityBot`
User-agent contains	`PerplexityBot`
Operator	Perplexity
Category	AI search crawlers
robots.txt	obeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify by	published IP ranges
Published ranges	8 IPv4 + 0 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Builds Perplexity's search index. Perplexity is citation-heavy by product design, so inclusion here converts to referral traffic more directly than most AI surfaces.

What blocking it costs you

You stop being indexed and cited by Perplexity, and lose the referral clicks its citations produce.

Full user-agent string

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; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot

Allow it instead

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

Ask this page a question, with one GET

A question about this page, answered by a call you can make right now — no key, no account, no JSON-RPC, nothing to assemble. The query string is already filled in with this page's own subject.

curl -s 'https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/verification-methods?crawler=perplexitybot&s=client-dossiers'

/tools/verification-methods?crawler=perplexitybot
How do I prove a request really is PerplexityBot? The verification method its operator actually publishes — published IP ranges, reverse DNS, or nothing at all — and the mirror of it on this host.
/tools/verify-crawler?ip=107.20.236.150&ua=PerplexityBot
Is 107.20.236.150 really PerplexityBot? That address checked against every prefix this host mirrors. 107.20.236.150 is the first address of 107.20.236.150/32, one of the ranges listed on this page — so the link is a worked example that returns a match. Swap in an address from your own log.

Every parameter above is a value the endpoint reads, not an address it visits: nothing is fetched on your behalf. Called without any parameter, each endpoint returns its own specification instead of an error. All of them.

Operator documentation: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility