Perplexity-User
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Perplexity-User visits a page when someone asks Perplexity a question, and links to it in the answer. Perplexity says that, because a person requested the visit, this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt rules.
Fact sheet
- Operator
- Perplexity
- What it is for
- It fetches a page when someone asks the assistant a question, to answer with it.
- Assistant it feeds
- Perplexity
- Counts towards the Parsigo score
- Yes. It fetches pages for one of the assistants we measure.
- Official documentation
- docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
- Official IP ranges
- JSON list
If you block it
You ask the assistant (Perplexity) not to fetch your pages when someone asks it a question. The operator warns that robots.txt may not apply to these requests, because a person starts them.
Allow or block
A group of its own makes Perplexity-User ignore the “User-agent: *” rules. If you have Disallow lines there that should still apply to it, repeat them inside its group. To allow it, writing nothing is usually enough.
Allow
User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /
Block
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
Test it on your site
We run the diagnostic on your site and show you whether Perplexity-User can get in, with the robots.txt line that decides it. Free, no sign-up.