Getting Started
PerplexityBot
Getting Started
PerplexityBot
We strive to improve our service every day. To provide the best search experience, we need to collect data. We use web crawlers to gather information from the internet and index it for our search engine.
You can identify our web crawler by its user agent
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User agent token: PerplexityBot
Full user agent: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)
Customizing access
Disallow PerplexityBot
To prevent PerplexityBot from accessing your site data, add a record to your site’s robots.txt
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User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
Custom access rules
You can also customize access, disallowing data retrieval only from specific paths.
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User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /public/
Disallow: /private/