# 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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Every claimed field for PerplexityBot is documented at /fields.

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