Directory Assistants fetching for a user
Perplexity-User Agent
Acts for a person. Operated by perplexity.
Identity: Publishes its IP addresses.
How to recognise it
- Published IP list: https://www.perplexity.com/perplexity-user.json
- User agent contains
Perplexity-User
Allow or block
To opt out, add to robots.txt:
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /
It may not honour robots.txt, because a person asked for the page.
With Double Agent
Sessions from Perplexity-User are labelled agent with agent_id: perplexity.perplexity-user, and tagged in your analytics. Nothing is blocked unless you choose to. Install: https://doubleagent.so/install.md
Source: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots ยท Operator docs: https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots