From 7867c3e26c267301cc528edf89fccf5203bfb99b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cory Dransfeldt Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 08:44:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 01/14] 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" Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 15:44:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 02/14] 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 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:00:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 03/14] 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 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:50:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 04/14] 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" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:12:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 05/14] 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 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:08:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 06/14] 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 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:28:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 07/14] 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" Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:28:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 08/14] 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?= Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:15:13 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 09/14] 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 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:58:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 10/14] 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" Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:04:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 11/14] 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 12/14] 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" Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:12:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 13/14] 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 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:00:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 14/14] 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)",