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