Species index / perplexity
PerplexityBot
Operated by Perplexity AI. Identity is self-declared and unverified.
2Requests
1Distinct IPs
1Well-known probes
2026-08-19First seen
2026-08-19Last seen
Identity
| Kind | crawler |
|---|---|
| Family | perplexity |
| Stated purpose | search |
| UA match | perplexitybot |
| Verified | no |
| robots.txt | insufficient-data |
| 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 | 1 | 2026-08-19 | 2026-08-19 |
Protocol fingerprint
| HTTP | TLS | Cipher | ALPN | Requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP/1.1 | TLS1.3 | TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | http/1.1 | 1 |
| HTTP/1.1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
Requests per day (60 days)
| Day | Requests | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 2 |