# Perplexity-User

Perplexity's crawler: what it does, robots.txt handling per the operator, and observed behaviour on this property.

- Operator: Perplexity
- Purpose: User-requested fetches | operator's words: "supports user actions within Perplexity. When users ask Perplexity a question, it might visit a web page to help provide an accurate answer and include a link to the page in its response."
- robots.txt token: `Perplexity-User`
- Appears in access logs: yes
- User-agent: `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)`
- robots.txt: Generally ignores robots.txt. Perplexity's own words: since a user requested the fetch, this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt rules.
- IP list: https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json
- Verification: Match the requesting IP against the published list.
- Documentation: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots (read 2026-08-04)
- Note: A hit from Perplexity-User means a person asked Perplexity something and it opened this page to answer.

Block it:
```
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /
```

Observed on this property (logged since 2026-08-04):
- Not observed here yet.

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