AssistantBlocking it costs you visibility
Perplexity-User
Fetches a page a Perplexity user explicitly pointed at.
- robots.txt token
Perplexity-User- Operator
- Perplexity ↗
- Powers
- Perplexity live page reads
- Honours robots.txt
- PartiallyDocumentation ↗
Allow it
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /Block it
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /Need the whole file, with every crawler and your private paths — and the llms.txt to go with it? The generator writes them. AI config generator →
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Perplexity-User/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexity-user) Crawlable/1.0; +https://crawlable.fr/probeThis is the string we send when probing. The Crawlable suffix identifies us in your logs.
Perplexity
Check your own site
robots.txt is only half the answer: your CDN can refuse Perplexity-User before it ever reads the file. A scan checks both.
Free, no account, about 5 seconds.