PerplexityBot

Perplexity search bot, purpose: search.

The PerplexityBot record on Rattlesnakes By Mail is the full published file on PerplexityBot, a search_bot from Perplexity. Each fact on the PerplexityBot record is a dated claim with a verbatim quote from Perplexity, a source URL, a verification method and a confidence. Sections run in a fixed order: Identity, Claims, Observations, Changes, Questions, Notes.

requests to this site from PerplexityBot, 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-07

100%

of requests verified against Perplexity's published identity

PerplexityBot is Perplexity's crawler. The chart counts the pages it read on this site, day by day.

Most days had no requests from PerplexityBot; the busiest day was 2026-09-25 with 2 requests.

Requests per day from PerplexityBot, 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-07. Source: this site's own request logs, each request checked against the vendor's published identity. Method: /method.

Identity

vendor: Perplexity
kind: search_bot
purpose: search
ua_token: PerplexityBot
robots_token: PerplexityBot
ip_list_url: https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json
docs_url: https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
status: active

Surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results.

Claims

Field	Value	Method	Confidence
cites_sources	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
honours_crawl_delay	`not_documented`	vendor_doc	n/a
publishes_ip_list	`yes`	vendor_doc	high
purpose_documented	`search`	vendor_doc	high
reads_llms_txt	`not_documented`	vendor_doc	n/a
respects_robots_txt	`yes`	vendor_doc	medium
separate_search_and_training_tokens	`not_documented`	vendor_doc	n/a
user_agent_string_full	`Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)`	vendor_doc	high
verifiable_by_rdns	`not_documented`	vendor_doc	n/a

Observations

Requests per day from PerplexityBot, 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-07. PerplexityBot made 6 requests in this window.

requests, last 30 days: 6
verified requests, last 30 days: 6
verified share, last 30 days: 100%
daily rows recorded: 3

Changes

Date	Claim	Kind	New value
2026-09-13	respects_robots_txt	new	yes
2026-09-13	honours_crawl_delay	new	not_documented
2026-09-13	publishes_ip_list	new	yes
2026-09-13	verifiable_by_rdns	new	not_documented
2026-09-13	purpose_documented	new	search
2026-09-13	separate_search_and_training_tokens	new	not_documented
2026-09-13	cites_sources	new	yes
2026-09-13	reads_llms_txt	new	not_documented
2026-09-13	user_agent_string_full	new	Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)

Notes

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