PerplexityBot Simulator & Tester
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Simulate a PerplexityBot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML Perplexity gets, so it can cite your content.
Simulate a PerplexityBot visit
Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as PerplexityBot and inspect the HTML it gets.
How to use the PerplexityBot simulator
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Step 1
Enter a URL
Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page.
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Step 2
Select the PerplexityBot user agent
The tester sends the request with the PerplexityBot user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real PerplexityBot visit.
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Step 3
Run the crawl
The simulator requests the page as PerplexityBot and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does.
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Step 4
Inspect the HTML
Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags PerplexityBot gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, PerplexityBot cannot read it.
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 crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change.
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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