PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot is the crawler used by Perplexity AI to index pages for its real-time answer engine.
Updated May 1, 2026
In depth
Perplexity favours fresh, well-structured content and cites sources inline. Allowing PerplexityBot in robots.txt and shipping schema is the minimum bar for earning citations on Perplexity answer pages.
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