PerplexityBot

Perplexity AI's crawler for indexing content it cites in answers.

PerplexityBot is the web crawler for Perplexity, an AI search engine that cites sources inline in every answer. Perplexity cites its sources more heavily than ChatGPT or Gemini, making PerplexityBot access particularly important for publishers seeking AI citations.

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GPTBot

OpenAI's crawler used for training ChatGPT models.

robots.txt

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