PerplexityBot

What is PerplexityBot?

About

PerplexityBot is the web crawler for Perplexity AI that indexes web content to power the AI search engine's real-time information retrieval and answer generation capabilities, enabling conversational search experiences. You can see how often PerplexityBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI search crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on many factors, and can even happen on-demand in response to a user query.

Type

AI Search Crawler
Indexes web content for AI-powered search results

Detail

Operated By Perplexity
Last Updated 9 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

13%
13% of top websites are blocking PerplexityBot
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Country of Origin

United States
PerplexityBot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Search Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Computers and Electronics
People and Society
Food and Drink
Finance
Health
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Robots.txt

Should I Block PerplexityBot?

Probably not. AI search crawlers power AI search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. AI search engine assistants usually cite their sources and provide links to their results.

How Do I Block PerplexityBot?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block PerplexityBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot) 
# robots.txt
# This should block PerplexityBot

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

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