AI bots · User fetch
Perplexity-User
Visits pages when a Perplexity user asks a question, and links to them in the answer. Not used for crawling or training.
- Run by
- Perplexity
- Type
- User fetch bot
- robots.txt token
Perplexity-User- User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)- Honours robots.txt
- Generally no. Perplexity says that since a user requested the fetch, it generally ignores robots.txt rules.
- Official docs
- docs.perplexity.ai
- Published IP list
- www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json
Block it
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
Allow it
User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /
A named group replaces the * group for this bot, so repeat any private-path Disallow lines in it. Firewalls (Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, Vercel AI Bots ruleset) can block it even when robots.txt allows it. See fixes per stack.
Other Perplexity bots
- PerplexityBot (search)
Other user fetch bots
- ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)
- Claude-User (Anthropic)
- Meta-ExternalFetcher (Meta)
- Amzn-User (Amazon)
- MistralAI-User (Mistral AI)