Is PerplexityBot blocked on your site?
Enter a domain to see whether its robots.txt lets GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler, or any of 14 other AI crawlers read the homepage.
Ask about another crawler:
- OAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT-User
- GPTBot
- Claude-SearchBot
- Claude-User
- ClaudeBot
- PerplexityBot
- Perplexity-User
- Google-Extended
- Applebot-Extended
- Amazonbot
- DuckAssistBot
- Meta-ExternalAgent
- CCBot
- Bytespider
About PerplexityBot
Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity's search results. Perplexity says it is not used to crawl content for AI foundation models. Read the operator's documentation.
How to block or allow it
robots.txt rules are read per crawler: PerplexityBot follows a group that names it, or else the User-agent: * group. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /The AI crawler robots.txt generator makes these lines for any mix of crawlers. The check reads only your homepage path, robots.txt, llms.txt and a HEAD of llms-full.txt; see exactly what is fetched.