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PerplexityBot

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Perplexity AI web crawler for search

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)

Allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

Block PerplexityBot in robots.txt

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

Blocking removes your site from this engine's AI answers and citations — you lose AI search traffic. It does not affect model training.

Official documentation: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/perplexitybot

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