Everything You Want to Know about Perplexity-User
Perplexity-User fetches a page live when a user's question or pasted link requires it, to help provide an accurate, cited answer.
Last verified August 15, 2026 against Perplexity AI's published crawler docs
Why it's crawling your site
A user asked Perplexity a question (or pasted your URL) that required fetching your page live; because it's user-requested, it generally ignores robots.txt.
How Perplexity-User views your website
Perplexity-User fetches raw page HTML (single-page fetch, user-triggered) — it does not execute JavaScript. Content that only appears after client-side rendering is invisible to it.
Paste a URL for the rendered-vs-crawled diff, blocked resources, and the sections that never reach the bot.
How to block Perplexity-User
Add the rule below to your site's robots.txt. Most crawlers, including Perplexity-User, check for changes within 24 hours.
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /Need the full walkthrough?
Partial blocks, per-directory rules, Cloudflare and server-level options, verification.