Species index / perplexity
PerplexityBot
Operated by Perplexity AI. Identity is self-declared and unverified.
13Requests
1Distinct IPs
2Well-known probes
2026-08-19First seen
2026-10-03Last seen
Identity
| Kind | crawler |
|---|---|
| Family | perplexity |
| Stated purpose | search |
| UA match | perplexitybot |
| Verified | no |
| robots.txt | ignores |
| Operator docs | https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots |
What it went looking for
The order and selection of discovery paths is a design fingerprint: it reflects which conventions whoever built this client decided to support.
| Path | Hits | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
/robots.txt | 7 | 2026-08-19 | 2026-08-27 |
Protocol fingerprint
| HTTP | TLS | Cipher | ALPN | Requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP/1.1 | TLS1.3 | TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | http/1.1 | 10 |
| HTTP/1.1 | TLS1.3 | TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | -- | 10 |
| HTTP/1.1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
TLS client fingerprint
Captured off the wire before the proxy terminates TLS. JA4 is stable across IP changes and much harder to spoof than a User-Agent string, so it is the strongest identity signal on this page.
| JA4 | JA3 | TLS | ALPN | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| t13d101000_61a7ad8aa9b6_f9531d972513 | 021c21440b7e4f21... | 13 | -- | 1 |
| t13d101000_61a7ad8aa9b6_f9531d972513 | 15f17fd496dfc6a0... | 13 | -- | 1 |
| t13d101000_61a7ad8aa9b6_f9531d972513 | 2610f916374cc6ce... | 13 | -- | 1 |
| t13d101000_61a7ad8aa9b6_f9531d972513 | 5e3fad3266e3c799... | 13 | -- | 1 |
| t13d101000_61a7ad8aa9b6_f9531d972513 | 6694c4f411f890fd... | 13 | -- | 1 |
| t13d101000_61a7ad8aa9b6_f9531d972513 | 87197398379605b0... | 13 | -- | 1 |
Requests per day (60 days)
| Day | Requests | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 1 | |
| 2026-08-20 | 1 | |
| 2026-08-26 | 2 | |
| 2026-08-27 | 1 | |
| 2026-08-31 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-05 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-12 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-19 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-26 | 1 | |
| 2026-09-27 | 2 | |
| 2026-10-03 | 1 |