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PerplexityBot

PerplexityBot is Perplexity's crawler. This crawler fetches pages to build a search or answer index.

Crawler facts

Operator	Perplexity
User agent token	`perplexitybot`
Traffic type	Search index
Verification	UA + IP range
IP source	https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json

What "verified" means for PerplexityBot

For PerplexityBot, "verified" means DataSaaS compares the request IP against Perplexity's published ranges. A request carrying this user agent from any other IP is recorded as unverified.

Track it

PerplexityBot fetches raw HTML and never runs JavaScript, so no browser tag can see it. Install the DataSaaS server-side package to record every request and verify the ones that publish IP ranges.

Read the bot-traffic setup guide

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