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PerplexityUser

AI Training Crawler Unknown / community maintained robots.txt behaviour unknown

Perplexity AI web crawler bot

User-Agent

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

Allow PerplexityUser in robots.txt

User-agent: PerplexityUser
Allow: /

Block PerplexityUser in robots.txt

User-agent: PerplexityUser
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://perplexity.ai

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