Perplexity-User
Fetches a page live when a Perplexity user clicks a source or asks it to read a specific URL.
What Perplexity-User is for
Fetches a page in real time to answer a question someone just asked.
A visit signals a user-driven read of one page, not a broad crawl. Perplexity states this user-action fetch is not gated by robots.txt.
Crawler guide
Evergreen identity, source, and robots.txt handling guidance.
Allow or block Perplexity-User
Partially honours robots.txt. Add one of these to your robots.txt.
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /
Perplexity documents Perplexity-User as a user-triggered fetch that may ignore robots.txt, since it acts on a person’s direct request.
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What is Perplexity-User?
Perplexity-User is an AI web crawler operated by Perplexity. Fetches a page live when a Perplexity user clicks a source or asks it to read a specific URL.
How do I block Perplexity-User?
Add a directive to your robots.txt: "User-agent: Perplexity-User" followed by "Disallow: /". Partially honours robots.txt. Perplexity documents Perplexity-User as a user-triggered fetch that may ignore robots.txt, since it acts on a person’s direct request.
Does blocking Perplexity-User hide me from AI?
A visit signals a user-driven read of one page, not a broad crawl. Perplexity states this user-action fetch is not gated by robots.txt.
Identity and robots.txt facts come from Perplexity's published bot documentation. Behaviour is measured from identified Perplexity-User requests in the server logs of the brands Trakkr tracks - 576K crawler visits across 84 sites, recounted as new data arrives.
Telemetry updated Feb 1, 2026.