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What is PerplexityBot?

Perplexity's crawler for indexing pages for Perplexity search. Perplexity says it is not used for training and that it follows robots.txt.

robots.txt token: PerplexityBot
Operator: Perplexity
Purpose: Search
Obeys robots.txt: Yes The operator says it follows robots.txt.
Documented by operator: Yes, on the operator's own pages.
Published IP list: www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json
Documentation: docs.perplexity.ai

Block PerplexityBot from your whole site

robots.txt

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

Allow it, but keep private paths out

robots.txt

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

Other bots from Perplexity

Perplexity-User

Add it to a robots.txt in the generator →

Sources

docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots