Perplexity AI
Perplexity-User
Real-time content retriever triggered when a user query requires fetching live content from a webpage.
Purpose: Real-time content fetching for user queries
📊 Popularity & Traffic
User-initiated; robots.txt rules may be ignored for direct user requests.
🤖 User Agent Strings
Use these patterns to identify Perplexity-User in your server logs or configure your robots.txt file.
Perplexity-User
May ignore robots.txtFetches pages on-demand during Perplexity queries
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0🌐 IP Ranges
Source: Official JSON file
Official source fileNo specific IP ranges published. Identify this bot using the User Agent strings above.
📝 Robots.txt Configuration
Add the following to your robots.txt file to block Perplexity-User:
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /💡 Important Notes
- Not for broad crawling - responds to specific user queries
- Similar to how a browser fetches a page when you click a result
- Blocking prevents Perplexity from quoting your content in answers
Beyond blocking crawlers
See what AI is saying about your brand
Understanding crawlers is step one. With Aiso, you can see the actual conversations happening about your brand inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.