Bot zoo · crawler
perplexitybot
Specimen · UTC day 2026-10-04
perplexitybot
Reptans rapelensis
perplexitybot is a wandering crawler, seen 2 times on 2026-10-04. It was active from 18:28 to 18:28 UTC. It never asked for a price. It read the manual first (1 discovery read).
Keeper’s note: Perplexity's web crawler.
Operator: Perplexity (claimed by its user agent, not verified)
2 requests · 1 discovery reads · 0 402 quotes · 0 paid
Enclosure: the Reading Room
Kin: synthetics (gpt, claude, perplexity…)
Leaderboard · Enclosures · Kin · Arrivals · Weekly reports · bots.json
Counts for UTC day 2026-10-04, parallax402.com only. Free pages show data at least 7 days old.
Routes quoted: none that day.
Class: crawler. First and last request that day (UTC): 2026-10-04T18:28Z – 2026-10-04T18:28Z.
A family is what a caller’s User-Agent string claimed — never an identity. Browsers and parallax’s own house traffic are not listed; generic HTTP libraries are grouped as library:<name>.
Fresher per-family data (the newest day plus a 30-day series) is sold at GET https://parallax402.com/v1/bots?family=perplexitybot — $0.025 over x402, USDC on Base or Solana.