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title: "What is Perplexity-User? Perplexity's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "User-triggered fetches for Perplexity answers and source citations. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/perplexity-user
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# Perplexity-User

by Perplexity

AI answers AI UA + IP range

Fetches a page when a user asks an assistant to answer with fresh web context.

User-triggered fetches for Perplexity answers and source citations.

## What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`perplexity-user`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Perplexity-User`

Free tools

[Verify a Perplexity-User request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=perplexity-user) [Check if your site allows Perplexity-User](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json](https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json)

[Perplexity's page for Perplexity-User](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers)

## Sources

-   [Perplexity crawler docs](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json)

## More from Perplexity

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PerplexityBot

Perplexity crawler that keeps its answer and search index fresh.

](/bot-directory/perplexitybot)

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## See if Perplexity-User has visited your site

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