Real-Time AI Citations
PerplexityBot Access Checker
Perplexity AI's real-time citation crawler. It fetches pages to generate sources and link citations for active Perplexity Search queries.
Verify Robots.txt blocks for PerplexityBot
Enter your domain to run a live AI crawl check auditing user agent directives.
Official User-Agent String
Mozilla/5.5 (compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +http://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)Verification Directives
To Block Crawler (Disallow)
User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: /
To Allow Crawler (Allow)
User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: /
PerplexityBot Search Optimization FAQs
Q: What is PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot is the active agent for Perplexity Search, running live index queries to discover and reference source materials.
Q: What happens if I block PerplexityBot?
If you disallow PerplexityBot, Perplexity Search cannot read your pages. As a result, your site will never be quoted or cited in their AI answer cards.
Q: How do I ensure Perplexity can cite my site?
Include the Allow rule in your robots.txt. Ensure your site uses valid schema layouts (like FAQPage or Article) to help the bot parse key text.