From 2b5a59a303a81847234ac11ec2f180ee9795db90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dark-visitors <dark-visitors@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 01:00:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 01/23] Update from Dark Visitors
---
robots.json | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index cd7ec4a..739f579 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -468,4 +468,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
From 03831a7eb55ae3682e45a651588df13acc4a4a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Dransfeldt <hi@coryd.dev>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:46:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 02/23] chore(robots.json): adds Quillbot
---
robots.json | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 739f579..bea7350 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -377,6 +377,20 @@
"operator": "[Qualified](https://www.qualified.com)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time."
},
+ "QuillBot": {
+ "description": "Operated by QuillBot as part of their suite of AI product offerings.",
+ "frequency": "No explicit frequency provided.",
+ "function": "Company offers AI detection, writing tools and other services.",
+ "operator": "[Quillbot](https://quillbot.com)",
+ "respect": "Unclear at this time."
+ },
+ "quillbot.com": {
+ "description": "Operated by QuillBot as part of their suite of AI product offerings.",
+ "frequency": "No explicit frequency provided.",
+ "function": "Company offers AI detection, writing tools and other services.",
+ "operator": "[Quillbot](https://quillbot.com)",
+ "respect": "Unclear at this time."
+ },
"SBIntuitionsBot": {
"description": "AI development and information analysis",
"respect": "[Yes](https://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/en/bot/)",
@@ -468,4 +482,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
From 4568d69b0edad5708fe49fafd2b5c0572cd2dfa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Dransfeldt <hi@coryd.dev>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:54:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 03/23] chore(robots.json): adds Panscient
---
robots.json | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 739f579..8d1163a 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -342,6 +342,20 @@
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "PanguBot is a web crawler operated by the Chinese company Huawei. It's used to download training data for its multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) called PanGu. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/pangubot"
},
+ "Panscient": {
+ "operator": "[Panscient](https://panscient.com)",
+ "respect": "[Yes](https://panscient.com/faq.htm)",
+ "function": "Data collection and analysis using machine learning and AI.",
+ "frequency": "The Panscient web crawler will request a page at most once every second from the same domain name or the same IP address.",
+ "description": "Compiles data on businesses and business professionals that is structured using AI and machine learning."
+ },
+ "panscient.com": {
+ "operator": "[Panscient](https://panscient.com)",
+ "respect": "[Yes](https://panscient.com/faq.htm)",
+ "function": "Data collection and analysis using machine learning and AI.",
+ "frequency": "The Panscient web crawler will request a page at most once every second from the same domain name or the same IP address.",
+ "description": "Compiles data on businesses and business professionals that is structured using AI and machine learning."
+ },
"Perplexity-User": {
"operator": "[Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/)",
"respect": "[No](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots)",
@@ -468,4 +482,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
From 9c28c63a0c4889d694f7ebdd278c17564f4b72a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 17:54:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 04/23] Merge pull request #142 from ai-robots-txt/quillbot
chore(robots.json): adds Quillbot
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 2 ++
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 2 ++
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 2 ++
6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 48971b1..ee898fd 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 117e653..de3bf3b 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index c2ebb47..be27797 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ PerplexityBot
PetalBot
PhindBot
QualifiedBot
+QuillBot
+quillbot.com
SBIntuitionsBot
Scrapy
SemrushBot-OCOB
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index edcf8a7..d7decae 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index 1c5e989..4ed2deb 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: PhindBot
User-agent: QualifiedBot
+User-agent: QuillBot
+User-agent: quillbot.com
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index c9a3910..e0fcd26 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
| PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. |
| PhindBot | [phind](https://www.phind.com/) | Unclear at this time. | AI-enhanced search engine. | No explicit frequency provided. | Company offers an AI agent that uses AI and generate extra web query on the fly |
| QualifiedBot | [Qualified](https://www.qualified.com) | Unclear at this time. | Company offers AI agents and other related products; usage can be assumed to support said products. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Qualified as part of their suite of AI product offerings. |
+| QuillBot | [Quillbot](https://quillbot.com) | Unclear at this time. | Company offers AI detection, writing tools and other services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by QuillBot as part of their suite of AI product offerings. |
+| quillbot\.com | [Quillbot](https://quillbot.com) | Unclear at this time. | Company offers AI detection, writing tools and other services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by QuillBot as part of their suite of AI product offerings. |
| SBIntuitionsBot | [SB Intuitions](https://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/en/) | [Yes](https://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/en/bot/) | Uses data gathered in AI development and information analysis. | No information. | AI development and information analysis |
| Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." |
| SemrushBot\-OCOB | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL). |
From 75ea75a95b006e68f89f8826bf84caff569a1eb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 18:04:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 05/23] Merge pull request #143 from ai-robots-txt/panscient
chore(robots.json): adds Panscient
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 2 ++
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 2 ++
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 2 ++
6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index ee898fd..5fefc69 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index de3bf3b..5caa249 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index be27797..fe153c8 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ omgili
omgilibot
Operator
PanguBot
+Panscient
+panscient.com
Perplexity-User
PerplexityBot
PetalBot
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index d7decae..e5d660b 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index 4ed2deb..26a9d78 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: Operator
User-agent: PanguBot
+User-agent: Panscient
+User-agent: panscient.com
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index e0fcd26..69b9ec2 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
| omgilibot | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704003301/http://omgili.com/Crawler.html) | Data is sold. | No information. | Legacy user agent initially used for Omgili search engine. Unknown if still used, `omgili` agent still used by Webz.io. |
| Operator | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Operator is an AI agent created by OpenAI that can use a web browser. It can intelligently navigate and interact with websites to complete multi-step tasks on behalf of a human user. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/operator |
| PanguBot | the Chinese company Huawei | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | PanguBot is a web crawler operated by the Chinese company Huawei. It's used to download training data for its multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) called PanGu. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/pangubot |
+| Panscient | [Panscient](https://panscient.com) | [Yes](https://panscient.com/faq.htm) | Data collection and analysis using machine learning and AI. | The Panscient web crawler will request a page at most once every second from the same domain name or the same IP address. | Compiles data on businesses and business professionals that is structured using AI and machine learning. |
+| panscient\.com | [Panscient](https://panscient.com) | [Yes](https://panscient.com/faq.htm) | Data collection and analysis using machine learning and AI. | The Panscient web crawler will request a page at most once every second from the same domain name or the same IP address. | Compiles data on businesses and business professionals that is structured using AI and machine learning. |
| Perplexity\-User | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Only when prompted by a user. | Visit web pages to help provide an accurate answer and include links to the page in Perplexity response. |
| PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [Yes](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in Perplexity. |
| PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. |
From 77393df5aa2ac7e3f2bb3e54ff919470c63e5b09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dark-visitors <dark-visitors@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 00:59:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 06/23] Update from Dark Visitors
---
robots.json | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 22a1370..6df5084 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -496,4 +496,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
From 528d77bf072780a40c169cab399eb0b2139edb83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Dransfeldt <hi@coryd.dev>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 09:14:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 07/23] chore(robots.json): adds bedrockbot
---
robots.json | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 739f579..a3f75bc 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools."
},
+ "bedrockbot": {
+ "operator": "[Amazon](https://amazon.com)",
+ "respect": "[Yes](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/webcrawl-data-source-connector.html#configuration-webcrawl-connector)",
+ "function": "Data scraping for custom AI applications.",
+ "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "description": "Connects to and crawls URLs that have been selected for use in a user's AWS bedrock application."
+ },
"Brightbot 1.0": {
"operator": "Browsing.ai",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
@@ -468,4 +475,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
From ac7ed17e71a59a67d54279d010477abecfb15caf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 16:51:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 08/23] Merge pull request #145 from
ai-robots-txt/aws-bedrockbot
chore(robots.json): adds bedrockbot
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 1 +
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 1 +
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 1 +
6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 5fefc69..dbbde1e 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 5caa249..08b2fd3 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index fe153c8..cdaeecd 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Andibot
anthropic-ai
Applebot
Applebot-Extended
+bedrockbot
Brightbot 1.0
Bytespider
CCBot
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index e5d660b..542ac65 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index 26a9d78..a8dc655 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ User-agent: Andibot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
+User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index 69b9ec2..ee324f7 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
| anthropic\-ai | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| Applebot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Applebot is a web crawler used by Apple to index search results that allow the Siri AI Assistant to answer user questions. Siri's answers normally contain references to the website. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/applebot |
| Applebot\-Extended | [Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage) | Yes | Powers features in Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Apple Intelligence, and others. | Unclear at this time. | Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools. |
+| bedrockbot | [Amazon](https://amazon.com) | [Yes](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/webcrawl-data-source-connector.html#configuration-webcrawl-connector) | Data scraping for custom AI applications. | Unclear at this time. | Connects to and crawls URLs that have been selected for use in a user's AWS bedrock application. |
| Brightbot 1\.0 | Browsing.ai | Unclear at this time. | LLM/AI training. | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products focused on website customer support. |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | No | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors. |
| CCBot | [Common Crawl Foundation](https://commoncrawl.org) | [Yes](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot) | Provides open crawl dataset, used for many purposes, including Machine Learning/AI. | Monthly at present. | Web archive going back to 2008. [Cited in thousands of research papers per year](https://commoncrawl.org/research-papers). |
From e21f6ae1b6eeb0782012a4a31e6af61b6a21cb09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dark-visitors <dark-visitors@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 00:59:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 09/23] Update from Dark Visitors
---
robots.json | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 8f5dadd..3b5c434 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -503,4 +503,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
From 7867c3e26c267301cc528edf89fccf5203bfb99b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Dransfeldt <hi@coryd.dev>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 08:44:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 10/23] chore(robots.json): adds EchoboxBot (#148)
---
robots.json | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 3b5c434..911dadc 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "DuckAssistBot is used by DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist feature to fetch content and generate realtime AI answers to user searches. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/duckassistbot"
},
+ "EchoboxBot": {
+ "operator": "[Echobox](https://echobox.com)",
+ "respect": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "function": "Data collection to support AI-powered products.",
+ "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "description": "Supports company's AI-powered social and email management products."
+ },
"FacebookBot": {
"operator": "Meta/Facebook",
"respect": "[Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/)",
@@ -503,4 +510,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
From 3759a6bf146f0153bbb7ab880ff95380a4fc739e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 15:44:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 11/23] chore(robots.json): adds EchoboxBot (#148)
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 1 +
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 1 +
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 1 +
6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index dbbde1e..74b4e5b 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 08b2fd3..9ca050b 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index cdaeecd..dc9f851 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Cotoyogi
Crawlspace
Diffbot
DuckAssistBot
+EchoboxBot
FacebookBot
Factset_spyderbot
FirecrawlAgent
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index 542ac65..4fd7a29 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index a8dc655..8964626 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
+User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index ee324f7..b596540 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
| Crawlspace | [Crawlspace](https://crawlspace.dev) | [Yes](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756654) | Scrapes data | Unclear at this time. | Provides crawling services for any purpose, probably including AI model training. |
| Diffbot | [Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/) | At the discretion of Diffbot users. | Aggregates structured web data for monitoring and AI model training. | Unclear at this time. | Diffbot is an application used to parse web pages into structured data; this data is used for monitoring or AI model training. |
| DuckAssistBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | DuckAssistBot is used by DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist feature to fetch content and generate realtime AI answers to user searches. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/duckassistbot |
+| EchoboxBot | [Echobox](https://echobox.com) | Unclear at this time. | Data collection to support AI-powered products. | Unclear at this time. | Supports company's AI-powered social and email management products. |
| FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. |
| Factset\_spyderbot | [Factset](https://www.factset.com/ai) | Unclear at this time. | AI model training. | No information provided. | Scrapes data for AI training. |
| FirecrawlAgent | [Firecrawl](https://www.firecrawl.dev/) | Yes | AI scraper and LLM training | No information provided. | Scrapes data for AI systems and LLM training. |
From cf598b6b71e0e3c6b59a699c74218a62d43c5e16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dark-visitors <dark-visitors@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:00:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 12/23] Update from Dark Visitors
---
robots.json | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 911dadc..19dffe8 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -510,4 +510,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
From 14d68f05ba42b04e8c33fcca5bacf7d8dee86cae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Dransfeldt <hi@coryd.dev>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:50:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 13/23] chore(robots.json): adds additional SemrushBot user
agents
---
robots.json | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 19dffe8..0ad3731 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -433,6 +433,27 @@
"operator": "[Zyte](https://www.zyte.com)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time."
},
+ "SemrushBot": {
+ "operator": "[Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/)",
+ "respect": "[Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/)",
+ "function": "Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool.",
+ "frequency": "Roughly once every 10 seconds.",
+ "description": "You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL)."
+ },
+ "SemrushBot-BA": {
+ "operator": "[Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/)",
+ "respect": "[Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/)",
+ "function": "Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool.",
+ "frequency": "Roughly once every 10 seconds.",
+ "description": "You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL)."
+ },
+ "SemrushBot-CT": {
+ "operator": "[Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/)",
+ "respect": "[Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/)",
+ "function": "Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool.",
+ "frequency": "Roughly once every 10 seconds.",
+ "description": "You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL)."
+ },
"SemrushBot-OCOB": {
"operator": "[Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/)",
@@ -440,6 +461,13 @@
"frequency": "Roughly once every 10 seconds.",
"description": "You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL)."
},
+ "SemrushBot-SI": {
+ "operator": "[Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/)",
+ "respect": "[Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/)",
+ "function": "Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool.",
+ "frequency": "Roughly once every 10 seconds.",
+ "description": "You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL)."
+ },
"SemrushBot-SWA": {
"operator": "[Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/)",
From 842e2256e896e6d2904fa501df59f2ca17ea6bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:12:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 14/23] Merge pull request #150 from ai-robots-txt/semrush-bots
chore(robots.json): adds additional SemrushBot user agents
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 4 ++++
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 4 ++++
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 4 ++++
6 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 74b4e5b..a6c8fea 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 9ca050b..7ed7e03 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index dc9f851..fe6c362 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ QuillBot
quillbot.com
SBIntuitionsBot
Scrapy
+SemrushBot
+SemrushBot-BA
+SemrushBot-CT
SemrushBot-OCOB
+SemrushBot-SI
SemrushBot-SWA
Sidetrade indexer bot
TikTokSpider
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index 4fd7a29..13aac72 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index 8964626..b130083 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ User-agent: QuillBot
User-agent: quillbot.com
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Scrapy
+User-agent: SemrushBot
+User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
+User-agent: SemrushBot-CT
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
+User-agent: SemrushBot-SI
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index b596540..a834382 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -62,7 +62,11 @@
| quillbot\.com | [Quillbot](https://quillbot.com) | Unclear at this time. | Company offers AI detection, writing tools and other services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by QuillBot as part of their suite of AI product offerings. |
| SBIntuitionsBot | [SB Intuitions](https://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/en/) | [Yes](https://www.sbintuitions.co.jp/en/bot/) | Uses data gathered in AI development and information analysis. | No information. | AI development and information analysis |
| Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." |
+| SemrushBot | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL). |
+| SemrushBot\-BA | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL). |
+| SemrushBot\-CT | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL). |
| SemrushBot\-OCOB | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL). |
+| SemrushBot\-SI | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Crawls your site for ContentShake AI tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL). |
| SemrushBot\-SWA | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Checks URLs on your site for SWA tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | You enter one text (on-demand) and we will make suggestions on it (the tool uses AI but we are not actively crawling the web, you need to manually enter one text/URL). |
| Sidetrade indexer bot | [Sidetrade](https://www.sidetrade.com) | Unclear at this time. | Extracts data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | AI product training. |
| TikTokSpider | ByteDance | Unclear at this time. | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, as per Bytespider. |
From d760f9216f8d6295b43e00862daec913f82610ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Dransfeldt <hi@coryd.dev>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:08:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 15/23] chore(robots.json): adds MyCentralAIScraperBot
---
robots.json | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 19dffe8..94e4f79 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -314,6 +314,13 @@
"description": "MistralAI-User is for user actions in LeChat. When users ask LeChat a question, it may visit a web page to help answer and include a link to the source in its response.",
"respect": "Yes"
},
+ "MyCentralAIScraperBot": {
+ "operator": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "respect": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "function": "AI data scraper",
+ "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "description": "Operator and data use is uncleaar at this time."
+ },
"NovaAct": {
"operator": "Unclear at this time.",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
@@ -510,4 +517,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
From 8f17718e762831498b09438835b2e1cb74f7e19d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Glyn Normington <glyn.normington@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:28:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 16/23] Fix typo
---
robots.json | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 94e4f79..befdb35 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "AI data scraper",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
- "description": "Operator and data use is uncleaar at this time."
+ "description": "Operator and data use is unclear at this time."
},
"NovaAct": {
"operator": "Unclear at this time.",
From e53d81c66d353016e27e75215b22dc8557e1a82c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:28:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 17/23] Merge pull request #152 from
ai-robots-txt/MyCentralAIScraperBot
chore(robots.json): adds MyCentralAIScraperBot
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 1 +
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 1 +
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 1 +
6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index a6c8fea..a2d6a6e 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 7ed7e03..e99d69c 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index fe6c362..7d1d3a0 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Meta-ExternalAgent
meta-externalfetcher
Meta-ExternalFetcher
MistralAI-User/1.0
+MyCentralAIScraperBot
NovaAct
OAI-SearchBot
omgili
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index 13aac72..ef0259e 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index b130083..ab60705 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
+User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index a834382..f8a2005 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
| meta\-externalfetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher |
| Meta\-ExternalFetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher |
| MistralAI\-User/1\.0 | Mistral AI | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | MistralAI-User is for user actions in LeChat. When users ask LeChat a question, it may visit a web page to help answer and include a link to the source in its response. |
+| MyCentralAIScraperBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI data scraper | Unclear at this time. | Operator and data use is unclear at this time. |
| NovaAct | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Nova Act is an AI agent created by Amazon that can use a web browser. It can intelligently navigate and interact with websites to complete multi-step tasks on behalf of a human user. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/novaact |
| OAI\-SearchBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | [Yes](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT. |
| omgili | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/) | Data is sold. | No information. | Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training. |
From b05f2fee000caf6c784135335b14c2254572754e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9rgio=20Spagnuolo?= <info@voltdata.info>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:15:13 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 18/23] Update robots.json with new crawler
Update with Poseidon Research Crawler as found in nytimes.com/robots.txt
---
robots.json | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 52e196a..9bd1f85 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -405,6 +405,13 @@
"operator": "[phind](https://www.phind.com/)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time."
},
+ "Poseidon Research Crawler": {
+ "operator": "[Poseidon Research](https://www.poseidonresearch.com)",
+ "description": "Lab focused on scaling the interpretability research necessary to make better AI systems possible.",
+ "frequency": "No explicit frequency provided.",
+ "function": "AI research crawler",
+ "respect": "Unclear at this time."
+ },
"QualifiedBot": {
"description": "Operated by Qualified as part of their suite of AI product offerings.",
"frequency": "No explicit frequency provided.",
From 2b68568ac26db7a37d859fec12b0bb35e61cfedc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dark-visitors <dark-visitors@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:58:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 19/23] Update from Dark Visitors
---
robots.json | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 52e196a..7c10cab 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -315,11 +315,11 @@
"respect": "Yes"
},
"MyCentralAIScraperBot": {
- "operator": "Unclear at this time.",
- "respect": "Unclear at this time.",
- "function": "AI data scraper",
- "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
- "description": "Operator and data use is unclear at this time."
+ "operator": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "respect": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "function": "AI data scraper",
+ "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "description": "Operator and data use is unclear at this time."
},
"NovaAct": {
"operator": "Unclear at this time.",
@@ -545,4 +545,4 @@
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
From eb05f2f5276ff963f786cf8fd57d8ea909e82fd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:04:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 20/23] Merge pull request #153 from sergiospagnuolo/Poseidon
Update robots.json with new crawler
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 1 +
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 1 +
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 1 +
6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index a2d6a6e..27637c2 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index e99d69c..528ba08 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index 7d1d3a0..c7c3054 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Perplexity-User
PerplexityBot
PetalBot
PhindBot
+Poseidon Research Crawler
QualifiedBot
QuillBot
quillbot.com
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index ef0259e..c1afb05 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index ab60705..0edf11f 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: PhindBot
+User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: QuillBot
User-agent: quillbot.com
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index f8a2005..78a3408 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
| PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [Yes](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in Perplexity. |
| PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. |
| PhindBot | [phind](https://www.phind.com/) | Unclear at this time. | AI-enhanced search engine. | No explicit frequency provided. | Company offers an AI agent that uses AI and generate extra web query on the fly |
+| Poseidon Research Crawler | [Poseidon Research](https://www.poseidonresearch.com) | Unclear at this time. | AI research crawler | No explicit frequency provided. | Lab focused on scaling the interpretability research necessary to make better AI systems possible. |
| QualifiedBot | [Qualified](https://www.qualified.com) | Unclear at this time. | Company offers AI agents and other related products; usage can be assumed to support said products. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Qualified as part of their suite of AI product offerings. |
| QuillBot | [Quillbot](https://quillbot.com) | Unclear at this time. | Company offers AI detection, writing tools and other services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by QuillBot as part of their suite of AI product offerings. |
| quillbot\.com | [Quillbot](https://quillbot.com) | Unclear at this time. | Company offers AI detection, writing tools and other services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by QuillBot as part of their suite of AI product offerings. |
From 7535893aecf2895dd09bf00de397afde4edf0f8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: paulrudy <1110792+paulrudy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:39:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 21/23] re-add facebookexternalhit
---
robots.json | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 5d5f692..60c431c 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -174,6 +174,13 @@
"frequency": "Up to 1 page per second",
"description": "Officially used for training Meta \"speech recognition technology,\" unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically."
},
+ "facebookexternalhit": {
+ "operator": "Meta/Facebook",
+ "respect": "[No](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313)",
+ "function": "Ostensibly only for sharing, but likely used as an AI crawler as well",
+ "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "description": "Note that excluding FacebookExternalHit will block incorporating OpenGraph data when sharing in social media, including rich links in Apple's Messages app. [According to Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/), its purpose is \"to crawl the content of an app or website that was shared on one of Meta’s family of apps…\". However, see discussions [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/pull/21) and [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) for evidence to the contrary."
+ },
"Factset_spyderbot": {
"operator": "[Factset](https://www.factset.com/ai)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
From 5326c202b57d87a9921810ef26fca98edce77d5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:12:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 22/23] Merge pull request #154 from paulrudy/main
re-add facebookexternalhit
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
Caddyfile | 2 +-
haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt | 1 +
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 1 +
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 1 +
6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 27637c2..3ba960f 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 528ba08..b675b9b 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
@aibots {
- header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
+ header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
index c7c3054..9cfb5c6 100644
--- a/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
+++ b/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Diffbot
DuckAssistBot
EchoboxBot
FacebookBot
+facebookexternalhit
Factset_spyderbot
FirecrawlAgent
FriendlyCrawler
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index c1afb05..a53333e 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index 0edf11f..9d69a3a 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
+User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index 78a3408..a5ab4c7 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
| DuckAssistBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | DuckAssistBot is used by DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist feature to fetch content and generate realtime AI answers to user searches. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/duckassistbot |
| EchoboxBot | [Echobox](https://echobox.com) | Unclear at this time. | Data collection to support AI-powered products. | Unclear at this time. | Supports company's AI-powered social and email management products. |
| FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. |
+| facebookexternalhit | Meta/Facebook | [No](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) | Ostensibly only for sharing, but likely used as an AI crawler as well | Unclear at this time. | Note that excluding FacebookExternalHit will block incorporating OpenGraph data when sharing in social media, including rich links in Apple's Messages app. [According to Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/), its purpose is "to crawl the content of an app or website that was shared on one of Meta’s family of apps…". However, see discussions [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/pull/21) and [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) for evidence to the contrary. |
| Factset\_spyderbot | [Factset](https://www.factset.com/ai) | Unclear at this time. | AI model training. | No information provided. | Scrapes data for AI training. |
| FirecrawlAgent | [Firecrawl](https://www.firecrawl.dev/) | Yes | AI scraper and LLM training | No information provided. | Scrapes data for AI systems and LLM training. |
| FriendlyCrawler | Unknown | [Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler) | We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning. |
From 4ed17b8e4af67d347b039429eb633c96acbba72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dark-visitors <dark-visitors@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:00:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 23/23] Update from Dark Visitors
---
robots.json | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index 60c431c..ab2a383 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
"respect": "[No](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313)",
"function": "Ostensibly only for sharing, but likely used as an AI crawler as well",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
- "description": "Note that excluding FacebookExternalHit will block incorporating OpenGraph data when sharing in social media, including rich links in Apple's Messages app. [According to Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/), its purpose is \"to crawl the content of an app or website that was shared on one of Meta’s family of apps…\". However, see discussions [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/pull/21) and [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) for evidence to the contrary."
+ "description": "Note that excluding FacebookExternalHit will block incorporating OpenGraph data when sharing in social media, including rich links in Apple's Messages app. [According to Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/), its purpose is \"to crawl the content of an app or website that was shared on one of Meta\u2019s family of apps\u2026\". However, see discussions [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/pull/21) and [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) for evidence to the contrary."
},
"Factset_spyderbot": {
"operator": "[Factset](https://www.factset.com/ai)",