Perplexity-User
recommended: observePerplexity-User supports user actions within Perplexity. When users ask Perplexity a question, it might visit a web page to help provide an accurate answer and include a link to the page in its response.
What it does
Perplexity-User makes isolated, on-demand requests rather than crawling your site. Traffic follows user demand, ranging from sporadic fetches to steady visits for a popular assistant.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Perplexity-User
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Perplexity-User:
Allow full access
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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See Perplexity-User on your own site
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