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Perplexity-User

AI Assistant / Agent Perplexity robots.txt behaviour unknown

Perplexity user web crawler bot

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)

Allow Perplexity-User in robots.txt

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

Block Perplexity-User in robots.txt

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

Blocking prevents the assistant from reading your pages when users ask about them — links to your site will fail inside the AI product.

Official documentation: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots

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