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 "slug": "perplexitybot",
 "name": "PerplexityBot",
 "operator": "Perplexity",
 "operator_slug": "perplexity",
 "category": "ai-search",
 "category_label": "AI search crawlers",
 "robots_token": "PerplexityBot",
 "user_agent_substring": "PerplexityBot",
 "user_agent_example": "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",
 "respects_robots_txt": "documented",
 "respects_robots_txt_label": "obeys robots.txt (documented)",
 "verification_method": "published-ranges",
 "verification_label": "published IP ranges",
 "published_ip_ranges_url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json",
 "ip_ranges_endpoint": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/ip-ranges/perplexity-bot.json",
 "ipv4_prefix_count": 8,
 "ipv6_prefix_count": 0,
 "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.",
 "cost_of_blocking": "You stop being indexed and cited by Perplexity, and lose the referral clicks its citations produce.",
 "operator_docs": "https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots",
 "html_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/perplexitybot.html",
 "json_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/perplexitybot.json",
 "last_reviewed": "2026-09-01"
}