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Tracking ChatGPT · Perplexity · Claude · Google AI Overviews
  1. Rankwise
  2. /AI crawlers
  3. /PerplexityBot
Perplexity · Search index

PerplexityBot

Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity's search results. Perplexity says it is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models.

Source: docs.perplexity.ai
Check if your site allows PerplexityBot

Operator

Perplexity

Job

Search index

Builds the index an AI answer searches. Block it and you drop out of that product's results.

robots.txt

Follows robots.txt

Perplexity documents robots.txt tags as the way to manage its crawlers, recommends allowing PerplexityBot to appear in results, and says changes can take up to 24 hours.

Source: docs.perplexity.ai
User agent

How it identifies itself

Copied from the vendor's documentation. Version numbers inside these strings change over time, so match on the token rather than the whole string.
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)
Source: docs.perplexity.ai
robots.txt

Allow or block PerplexityBot

Add one of these groups to the robots.txt at the root of your domain.

A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it (RFC 9309), so a named group does not inherit the rules under User-agent: *. Repeat any paths you keep private, as the example does with /admin/.

Allow PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Block PerplexityBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
What tryrankwise.com does

We name PerplexityBot and let it in

Read from the robots.txt we serve. We want AI engines to read and cite this site, so every AI crawler is allowed everywhere except the app, the API and the sign-in pages (/dashboard/, /api/, /login, /signup, /sign-in, /sign-up). The file also declares Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes.

tryrankwise.com/robots.txt
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /sign-up

See the whole file. The same rules repeat in every group, because a crawler that matches a named group ignores the wildcard one.

Other Perplexity crawlers
Perplexity-UserUser-triggered fetch
AI engines it matters for
PerplexityHow it picks sources, and what Rankwise measures on it

Sources, checked 2026-09-24

  • docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
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