Perplexity
PerplexityBot— search-time from Perplexity
Crawls pages cited in Perplexity answers and search results.
PerplexityBot crawls and re-fetches pages that appear in Perplexity citations. Allow it if you want to be quoted in Perplexity's answer engine. Perplexity-User is the on-demand variant used when a single user explicitly requests a fetch.
Vendor
Perplexity
Category
Search-time browsing agents
User-Agent
PerplexityBot
Documentation
robots.txt snippets
Allow
User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: /
FAQ
What is PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot crawls and re-fetches pages that appear in Perplexity citations. Allow it if you want to be quoted in Perplexity's answer engine. Perplexity-User is the on-demand variant used when a single user explicitly requests a fetch.
What is the user-agent string for PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot identifies itself with the user-agent token "PerplexityBot". You can match it in robots.txt with "User-Agent: PerplexityBot" and route nginx / log-analyzer rules against that token.
How do I allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt?
Add the following block to your /robots.txt — this explicitly grants PerplexityBot access:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
How can I check whether my site is ready for PerplexityBot?
Run a free check at https://agentics.page — it audits whether your robots.txt allows the right bots, whether you publish llms.txt and JSON-LD structured data, whether your content is server-rendered, and whether PerplexityBot can actually consume your site.
Is your domain ready for PerplexityBot?
agentics checks whether your robots.txt allows the right bots, your llms.txt is in shape, your JSON-LD and SSR content are visible, and whether PerplexityBot can actually use your domain.
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