Crawlers & Access
What are Perplexity's crawlers?
Updated January 12, 2026GEO Expert Team
Summary
Perplexity documents PerplexityBot (surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results) and Perplexity-User (user-initiated fetch to answer questions). PerplexityBot is the main crawler for visibility.
Detailed Answer
Perplexity documents:
1. PerplexityBot
- Purpose: Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results
- User-agent: PerplexityBot
- Primary crawler for visibility
- Follows robots.txt
2. Perplexity-User
- Purpose: User-initiated fetch to answer questions
- Triggered by user requests
- May not follow robots.txt (user-requested)
For maximum visibility:
```
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
```
Perplexity is citation-forward: They prominently display and link sources, making visibility particularly valuable.
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