ai.robots.txt/table-of-bot-metrics.md

Name	Operator	Respects robots.txt	Data use	Visit regularity	Description
AI2Bot	Ai2	Yes	Content is used to train open language models.	No information provided.	Explores 'certain domains' to find web content.
Ai2Bot-Dolma	Ai2	Yes	Content is used to train open language models.	No information provided.	Explores 'certain domains' to find web content.
aiHitBot	aiHit	Yes	A massive, artificial intelligence/machine learning, automated system.	No information provided.	Scrapes data for AI systems.
Amazonbot	Amazon	Yes	Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users.	No information provided.	Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses.
Andibot	Andi	Unclear at this time	Search engine using generative AI, AI Search Assistant	No information provided.	Scrapes website and provides AI summary.
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	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	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	Yes	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	Yes	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.
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	Yes	Takes action based on user prompts.	Only when prompted by a user.	Used by plugins in ChatGPT to answer queries based on user input.
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	Yes	Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for users. It analyzes online content specifically to enhance the relevance and accuracy of search responses.	No information provided.	Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for users. It analyzes online content specifically to enhance the relevance and accuracy of search responses.
Claude-User	Anthropic	Yes	Claude-User supports Claude AI users. When individuals ask questions to Claude, it may access websites using a Claude-User agent.	No information provided.	Claude-User supports Claude AI users. When individuals ask questions to Claude, it may access websites using a Claude-User agent.
Claude-Web	Anthropic	Unclear at this time.	Undocumented AI Agents	Unclear at this time.	Claude-Web is an AI-related agent operated by Anthropic. It's currently unclear exactly what it's used for, since there's no official documentation. If you can provide more detail, please contact us. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/claude-web
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	Yes	Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products.	No information provided.	Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic.
cohere-ai	Cohere	Unclear at this time.	Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts.	Takes action based on user prompts.	Retrieves data based on user prompts.
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere to download training data for its LLMs (Large Language Models) that power its enterprise AI products	Unclear at this time.	AI Data Scrapers	Unclear at this time.	cohere-training-data-crawler is a web crawler operated by Cohere to download training data for its LLMs (Large Language Models) that power its enterprise AI products. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/cohere-training-data-crawler
Cotoyogi	ROIS	Yes	AI LLM Scraper.	No information provided.	Scrapes data for AI training in Japanese language.
Crawlspace	Crawlspace	Yes	Scrapes data	Unclear at this time.	Provides crawling services for any purpose, probably including AI model training.
Diffbot	Diffbot	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	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	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	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, 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 and here for evidence to the contrary.
Factset_spyderbot	Factset	Unclear at this time.	AI model training.	No information provided.	Scrapes data for AI training.
FirecrawlAgent	Firecrawl	Yes	AI scraper and LLM training	No information provided.	Scrapes data for AI systems and LLM training.
FriendlyCrawler	Unknown	Yes	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.
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	Yes	Build and manage AI models for businesses employing Vertex AI	No information.	Google-CloudVertexBot crawls sites on the site owners' request when building Vertex AI Agents.
Google-Extended	Google	Yes	LLM training.	No information.	Used to train Gemini and Vertex AI generative APIs. Does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search.
GoogleOther	Google	Yes	Scrapes data.	No information.	"Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development."
GoogleOther-Image	Google	Yes	Scrapes data.	No information.	"Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development."
GoogleOther-Video	Google	Yes	Scrapes data.	No information.	"Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development."
GPTBot	OpenAI	Yes	Scrapes data to train OpenAI's products.	No information.	Data is used to train current and future models, removed paywalled data, PII and data that violates the company's policies.
iaskspider/2.0	iAsk	No	Crawls sites to provide answers to user queries.	Unclear at this time.	Used to provide answers to user queries.
ICC-Crawler	NICT	Yes	Scrapes data to train and support AI technologies.	No information.	Use the collected data for artificial intelligence technologies; provide data to third parties, including commercial companies; those companies can use the data for their own business.
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift	Yes	ImageSiftBot is a web crawler that scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support our suite of web intelligence products	No information.	Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Our web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images.
img2dataset	img2dataset	Unclear at this time.	Scrapes images for use in LLMs.	At the discretion of img2dataset users.	Downloads large sets of images into datasets for LLM training or other purposes.
ISSCyberRiskCrawler	ISS-Corporate	No	Scrapes data to train machine learning models.	No information.	Used to train machine learning based models to quantify cyber risk.
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	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-ExternalAgent	Unclear at this time.	Unclear at this time.	AI Data Scrapers	Unclear at this time.	Meta-ExternalAgent is a web crawler used by Meta to download training data for its AI models and improve its products by indexing content directly. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalagent
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	Yes	Search result generation.	No information.	Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT.
omgili	Webz.io	Yes	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	Yes	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	Yes	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	Yes	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	No	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	Yes	Search result generation.	No information.	Crawls sites to surface as results in Perplexity.
PetalBot	Huawei	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	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	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	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	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	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	Yes	Uses data gathered in AI development and information analysis.	No information.	AI development and information analysis
Scrapy	Zyte	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	Yes	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	Yes	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	Yes	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	Yes	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	Yes	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	Yes	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	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.
Timpibot	Timpi	Unclear at this time.	Scrapes data for use in training LLMs.	No information.	Makes data available for training AI models.
VelenPublicWebCrawler	Velen Crawler	Yes	Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models.	No information.	"Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web."
Webzio-Extended	Unclear at this time.	Unclear at this time.	AI Data Scrapers	Unclear at this time.	Webzio-Extended is a web crawler used by Webz.io to maintain a repository of web crawl data that it sells to other companies, including those using it to train AI models. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended
wpbot	QuantumCloud	Unclear at this time; opt out provided via Google Form	Live chat support and lead generation.	Unclear at this time.	wpbot is a used to support the functionality of the AI Chatbot for WordPress plugin. It supports the use of customer models, data collection and customer support.
YandexAdditional	Yandex	Yes	Scrapes/analyzes data for the YandexGPT LLM.	No information.	Retrieves data used for YandexGPT quick answers features.
YandexAdditionalBot	Yandex	Yes	Scrapes/analyzes data for the YandexGPT LLM.	No information.	Retrieves data used for YandexGPT quick answers features.
YouBot	You	Yes	Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs.	No information.	Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs.