PerplexityBot
by Perplexity
AI indexing
AI
UA + IP range
Builds the index an AI assistant searches when it needs to find and cite a source.
Perplexity crawler that keeps its answer and search index fresh.
What it usually means
Perplexity is indexing this page so it can cite it in future answers.
How to identify it
User-Agent tokens
perplexitybot robots.txt stanza
User-agent: PerplexityBot How it's verified
Published IP-range endpoints
Sources
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