---
type: Glossary Term
title: "PerplexityBot"
description: "Perplexity's crawler. Indexes content for Perplexity AI answer citations."
resource: "https://prerendering.com/glossary/perplexitybot"
tags: [ai-search, glossary]
timestamp: 2026-05-11T00:00:00Z
---

# PerplexityBot

Perplexity's crawler. Indexes content for Perplexity AI answer citations.

Powers Perplexity's answer engine. Crawls and indexes content for use in answer generation with citations. Generally does not execute JavaScript meaningfully; sites that rely on client-side rendering risk being absent from Perplexity citations.