PerplexityBot
Perplexity search bot, purpose: search.
The PerplexityBot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on PerplexityBot, a search_bot from Perplexity. Each fact on the PerplexityBot record is a dated claim with a verbatim quote from Perplexity, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. Sections run in a fixed order: Identity, Claims, Observations, Changes, Questions, Notes.
Identity
- vendor
- Perplexity
- kind
- search_bot
- purpose
- search
- ua_token
PerplexityBot- robots_token
PerplexityBot- ip_list_url
- https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json
- docs_url
- https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
- status
- active
Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results.
Claims
| Field | Value | Method | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| cites_sources | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| honours_crawl_delay | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | vendor_doc | high |
| purpose_documented | search | vendor_doc | high |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | vendor_doc | medium |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
| user_agent_string_full | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot) | vendor_doc | high |
| verifiable_by_rdns | not_documented | vendor_doc | n/a |
Observations
- requests, last 30 days
- 0
- verified requests, last 30 days
- 0
- verified share, last 30 days
- no data yet
- daily rows recorded
- 0
Changes
| Date | Claim | Kind | Old value | New value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-13 | respects_robots_txt | new | yes | |
| 2026-09-13 | honours_crawl_delay | new | not_documented | |
| 2026-09-13 | publishes_ip_list | new | yes | |
| 2026-09-13 | verifiable_by_rdns | new | not_documented | |
| 2026-09-13 | purpose_documented | new | search | |
| 2026-09-13 | separate_search_and_training_tokens | new | not_documented | |
| 2026-09-13 | cites_sources | new | yes | |
| 2026-09-13 | reads_llms_txt | new | not_documented | |
| 2026-09-13 | user_agent_string_full | new | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot) |
Notes
No published notes for this entity yet.
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