Perplexity-User
Perplexity · inference
- name
- Perplexity-User
- operator
- Perplexity
- purpose
- inference
- ua_substring
- Perplexity-User
- robots_token
- Perplexity-User
- respects_robots
- no
- verify
- published IP ranges (perplexity.ai)
- notes
- Real-time fetch in response to a user question. Per Perplexity, user-initiated fetches are not treated as automated crawling and may ignore robots.txt — verify and rate-limit at the edge if that matters to you.
- canonical_name
- Perplexity-User
- user_agent_token
- Perplexity-User
- ua_full
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- bot_type
- user-action-fetcher
- bot_type_extension
- —
- opt_out_mechanism
- limited — Perplexity documents that this user-initiated fetcher generally ignores robots.txt; rate-limit / verify at the edge instead
- published_ip_range_url
- https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json
- asn
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json
- reverse_dns_suffix
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- supports_web_bot_auth
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- signature_agent_domain
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- jwks_url
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- verification_methods
published-IP-range- crawl_traffic_share
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- targeted_content_type
- HTML, text
- documentation_url
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- first_seen_date
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
- last_verified_date
- 2026-06-15
- block_vs_allow_recommendation
- conditional — user-initiated fetch that ignores robots.txt; allow for legitimate user requests but rate-limit/verify at the edge if load or abuse is a concern.
- citation_referral_value
- medium (fetches in response to a user question; can surface your page to them)
- cloudflare_verified_category
- — verify-against-primary-at-build ↗ https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/perplexity-user
- status
- active
- triples
["Perplexity-User","operated_by","Perplexity"]["Perplexity-User","has_bot_type","user-action-fetcher"]["Perplexity-User","verified_via","published-IP-range"]- attribute_sources
{"claims":["user_agent_token","robots_token","published_ip_range_url","documentation_url","respects_robots","opt_out_mechanism"],"source":"https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots","last_verified":"2026-06-15"}