Known bots · Perplexity
What is PerplexityBot?
Perplexity’s crawler for its AI search. tidekeeper knows it by its User-Agent, and checks each read against the addresses Perplexity publishes.
- Run by
- Perplexity
- Reads for
- AI search
- Known by
- “perplexitybot” in its User-Agent, and PerplexityBot in robots.txt
- Its addresses
- Perplexity publishes them: www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json. tidekeeper checks every read against the list.
- Its readers come as
- Perplexity, the assistant: a reader who follows a link from it arrives with Perplexity as the source.
- Its owner’s page
- docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
Keep it out
User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: /
Or only part of the site: Disallow: /private/ under the same User-agent line.
On tidekeeper.eu
PerplexityBot read tidekeeper.eu 9 times in the last 30 days, as tidekeeper counts its own site, from its server.