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Perplexity-User

User fetcher

Perplexity's fetcher for pages a person asks it to read. Seen on 40 of 135 sites in 13 weeks.

Perplexity-User reached 30 of 92 sites last week

Sites that got at least one Perplexity-User request each week, against every site reporting that week.

Reach32%17th of 2633 of 104 sitesLast 4 weeks
Requests17K1% of all crawler requests13 weeks, 40 sites
Per site16a weekMedian where it visitsLast 4 weeks

Perplexity-User reads a page when someone asks Perplexity about it.

Perplexity documents this as a user-requested fetcher that generally ignores robots.txt rules.

Block Perplexity-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /
Allow Perplexity-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
User agentMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user)

Is it really Perplexity-User?

Anyone can send the Perplexity-User name. Here is how to check a request that carries it.

How to check
1Match the IP to Perplexity's listPerplexity publishes Perplexity-User's addresses at www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json.
2Never count a secret-file requestA request for /.env or /.git is not a crawl, whatever name it carries.
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Common questions

What is Perplexity-User?

Perplexity-User is Perplexity's user fetcher. User-triggered Perplexity fetcher for pages needed to answer a specific question.

How do I block Perplexity-User?

Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: Perplexity-User" followed by "Disallow: /". Perplexity documents this as a user-requested fetcher that generally ignores robots.txt rules.

Does blocking Perplexity-User hide me from AI?

No single bot rule hides a site from every AI product. A matching request is consistent with user-requested retrieval. Perplexity says this fetcher generally ignores robots.txt, and the request does not prove citation.