# PerplexityBot

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

- Operator: Perplexity
- Purpose: AI search index | operator's words: "designed to surface and link websites in search results on Perplexity. It is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models."
- robots.txt token: `PerplexityBot`
- Appears in access logs: yes
- User-agent: `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)`
- robots.txt: Honors robots.txt. Perplexity's documentation recommends allowing it so pages can appear in Perplexity results.
- IP list: https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json
- Verification: Match the requesting IP against the published list.
- Documentation: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots (read 2026-08-04)

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

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

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