Perplexity · User-triggered fetcher

Perplexity-User

Perplexity user-triggered fetch (sometimes ignores robots.txt)

Should you block it?

Safe to allow

Perplexity-User fetches a page in real time when a Perplexity user opens a link to your site inside a conversation. Blocking it breaks that click-through experience (users hit an error), but it does not affect indexing, citations or training.

How to allow it in robots.txt

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

How to block it

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

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