PerplexityBot
Perplexity AI web crawler for search
About this crawler
PerplexityBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PerplexityBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler, search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PerplexityBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
4.8%
Technical details
- Name
- PerplexityBot
- Pattern
PerplexityBot\/- Tags
- ai-crawler, search-engine
- Reference
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/perplexitybot
- Added
- 2024/03/14
- rDNS suffixes
.perplexity.ai- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely PerplexityBot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.perplexity.ai
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PerplexityBot:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PerplexityBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PerplexityBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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