Perplexity-User
Perplexity-User is assigned to the User-Bot category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:
Perplexity-User
User-initiated AI bots are triggered when a real human asks the AI assistant a question and the system fetches your page live to generate the answer. Each hit is a signal: your content is right now being used in an AI answer.
BotScope maps Perplexity-User requests onto your session timeline — you spot bursts, can filter them per path, and compare against other bots in the same category.
robots.txt directive for Perplexity-User
If you don't want Perplexity-User to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.
User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: /
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