From d79ca19f38f2bdcfb0f4b61c1f58c3d6488cf74d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Katrin Leinweber <katrinleinweber@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:59:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add Lightpanda due to its AI/LLM focus
https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser
---
robots.json | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json
index cdc7bb5..a084dbe 100644
--- a/robots.json
+++ b/robots.json
@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train AI models tailored to Australian language and culture. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot"
},
+ "Lightpanda": {
+ "operator": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "respect": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "function": "AI Data Scraper",
+ "frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
+ "description": "Lightpanda is a headless browser intended for 'AI agents, LLM training, scraping and testing': https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser"
+ },
"Meta-ExternalAgent": {
"operator": "[Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers)",
"respect": "Yes.",
From e0cdb278fbd243f554579fe5050850f124b286a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ai.robots.txt" <ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:57:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update from Dark Visitors
---
.htaccess | 2 +-
nginx-block-ai-bots.conf | 2 +-
robots.txt | 2 ++
table-of-bot-metrics.md | 2 ++
4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index c0e5fbb..d10e796 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
RewriteEngine On
-RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|Meta\-ExternalAgent|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot) [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|Meta\-ExternalAgent|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]
diff --git a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
index a6bbfa2..c37cef5 100644
--- a/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
+++ b/nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|Meta\-ExternalAgent|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot)") {
+if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|Amazonbot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|FacebookBot|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|imgproxy|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|Meta\-ExternalAgent|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
index de25a56..1e3aa80 100644
--- a/robots.txt
+++ b/robots.txt
@@ -31,9 +31,11 @@ User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
+User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
+User-agent: Operator
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
index b3e51fe..4c87b41 100644
--- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md
+++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md
@@ -33,9 +33,11 @@
| Kangaroo Bot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train AI models tailored to Australian language and culture. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot |
| Meta\-ExternalAgent | [Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers) | Yes. | Used to train models and improve products. | No information. | "The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler crawls the web for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly." |
| 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 |
+| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |