--- title: "User-triggered fetcher: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers" description: "User-triggered fetcher: A fetch made because a person asked an assistant something, such as reading a linked page. Read 2026-11-04." canonical: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/user-triggered-fetcher site: "Agent Ready Crawlers" last_updated: 2026-11-04 section: "Glossary" --- # User-triggered fetcher: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers > User-triggered fetcher: A fetch made because a person asked an assistant something, such as reading a linked page. Read 2026-11-04. Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/user-triggered-fetcher Site: Agent Ready Crawlers Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 Glossary # User-triggered fetcher In short A fetch made because a person asked an assistant something, such as reading a linked page. Operators often say robots.txt may not apply because a user initiated it. 8 rows are live answer fetchers. Example: Perplexity says Perplexity-User generally ignores robots.txt since a user requested the fetch. Related: All live answer fetchers and ChatGPT-User profile. ## Definition A fetch made because a person asked an assistant something, such as reading a linked page. Operators often say robots.txt may not apply because a user initiated it. ## Sourced example Perplexity says Perplexity-User generally ignores robots.txt since a user requested the fetch. [Source](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots), read 2026-11-04. ## How it shows up here 8 rows are live answer fetchers. Their operators say robots.txt may not apply, yet 9.7 percent of top-10,000 sites refuse ChatGPT-User, 8.3 percent Perplexity-User and 8.5 percent Meta-ExternalFetcher. - [All live answer fetchers](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/purpose/live-answer-fetch/) - [ChatGPT-User profile](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/chatgpt-user/) Previous: [User-agent string](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/user-agent-string/). Next: [Verified bot](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/verified-bot/). [All 41 terms](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/). ## Sources - [Perplexity Crawlers](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots) read 2026-11-04 Last reviewed 2026-11-04