curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/perplexitybot.json   # this page, as JSON

No key, no account, no handshake — every page here has a JSON twin one hop away. Machine doors: 6 keyless GET tools · documents.json · changes · llms.txt · openapi.json · agent card · mcp · a2a

PerplexityBot

Perplexity · AI search crawlers · json

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /


robots.txt token	`PerplexityBot`
User-agent contains	`PerplexityBot`
Operator	Perplexity
Category	AI search crawlers
robots.txt	obeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify by	published IP ranges
Published ranges	8 IPv4 + 0 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Builds Perplexity's search index. Perplexity is citation-heavy by product design, so inclusion here converts to referral traffic more directly than most AI surfaces.

What blocking it costs you

You stop being indexed and cited by Perplexity, and lose the referral clicks its citations produce.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot

Allow it instead

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-all-ai · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility