PerplexityBot Crawler Simulator
Test how Perplexity AI's crawler sees your website. Optimize your content for visibility in Perplexity's AI-powered search answers.
Test your site with PerplexityBot
Enter your URL to see how PerplexityBot views your website.
What is PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot is the web crawler used by Perplexity AI, an AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers with citations. Unlike traditional search engines that show links, Perplexity synthesizes information from multiple sources and cites them. Being accessible to PerplexityBot is essential for getting cited in Perplexity's answers, which are increasingly used by researchers, students, and professionals.
Why Allow PerplexityBot?
PerplexityBot robots.txt Configuration
Control how PerplexityBot accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Allow PerplexityBot
# Allow PerplexityBot User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: /
Block PerplexityBot
# Block PerplexityBot User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
User-Agent String: PerplexityBot/1.0 (https://www.perplexity.ai/bot)
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