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Perplexity-User
Operated by Perplexity · AI answers
Real-time fetch for answers and citations in Perplexity.
User-agent token
Perplexity-Userrobots.txt
robots.txt compliance not documented
Allow or block Perplexity-User
By default every well-behaved crawler is allowed. To block Perplexity-User specifically, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
Official Perplexity documentation
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