Integration & Extensibility
Perplexity Crawlers
We strive to improve our service every day by delivering the best search experience possible. To achieve this, we collect data using web crawlers (“robots”) and user agents that gather and index information from the internet, operating either automatically or in response to user requests. Webmasters can use the following robots.txt tags to manage how their sites and content interact with Perplexity. Each setting works independently, and it may take up to 24 hours for our systems to reflect changes.
| User Agent | Description |
|---|---|
| PerplexityBot | PerplexityBot is designed to surface and link websites in search results on Perplexity. It is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models. To ensure your site appears in search results, we recommend allowing PerplexityBot in your site’s robots.txt file and permitting requests from our published IP ranges listed below.Full user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)Published IP addresses: https://www.perplexity.com/perplexitybot.json |
| Perplexity‑User | Perplexity-User 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. Perplexity-User controls which sites these user requests can access. It is not used for web crawling or to collect content for training AI foundation models.Full user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)Published IP addresses: https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json Since a user requested the fetch, this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt rules. |