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Bot & Crawler Directory

65 known bots, crawlers, and AI agents — who runs each one, how it's verified, and what it means when it shows up in your traffic.

AI answers  (18)

Amzn-User

Amazon

User-triggered Amazon fetches for fresh answers in products such as Alexa.

AI

ChatGPT-User

OpenAI

User-triggered fetches when ChatGPT opens a page to answer a person.

AI

Claude-User

Anthropic

User-triggered fetches when Claude opens a page to answer a person.

AI

Copilot

Microsoft

User-triggered Microsoft Copilot fetches for AI answers.

AI

DuckAssistBot

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo real-time crawler for AI-assisted answers with citations.

AI

Google-Agent

Google

Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences.

AI

Google-NotebookLM

Google

Google fetcher associated with NotebookLM-style answer workflows.

AI

Google-Read-Aloud

Google

Google fetcher associated with read-aloud and assistant experiences.

GoogleAgent

Google

Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences.

AI

Grok-DeepSearch

xAI

xAI fetcher used by Grok's DeepSearch to gather sources for an answer.

AI

Kimi-User

Moonshot AI

User-triggered fetches when Kimi opens a page to answer a person.

AI

meta-externalads

Meta

meta-externalads is an AI-related crawler operated by Meta.

AI

meta-externalfetcher

Meta

Meta fetcher used when a person requests or shares a specific URL.

AI

MistralAI-User

Mistral

User-triggered fetches when Mistral's Le Chat opens a page to answer a person.

AI

OAI-AdsBot

OpenAI

OAI-AdsBot is an AI-related crawler operated by OpenAI.

AI

Perplexity-User

Perplexity

User-triggered fetches for Perplexity answers and source citations.

AI

Qwen-User

Alibaba

User-triggered fetches when Alibaba's Qwen opens a page to answer a person.

AI

xAI-SearchBot

xAI

User-triggered fetches when Grok answers a person's question.

AI

AI training  (25)

AI2Bot

Allen AI

AI2Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by Allen AI.

AI

AliyunBot

Alibaba

AliyunBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.

AI

Applebot-Extended

Apple

Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training.

AI

Bytespider

ByteDance

ByteDance crawler collecting public content used to train its AI models.

AI

ChatGLM-Spider

Zhipu AI

Zhipu AI crawler collecting public content for its ChatGLM models.

AI

ClaudeBot

Anthropic

Anthropic crawler collecting public content that may be used to improve Claude.

AI

cohere-ai

Cohere

Cohere crawler collecting public content that may improve its models.

AI

cohere-training-data-crawler

Cohere

cohere-training-data-crawler is an AI-related crawler operated by Cohere.

AI

DeepSeekBot

DeepSeek

DeepSeek crawler collecting public content for its models.

AI

Doubaobot

ByteDance

Doubaobot is an AI-related crawler operated by ByteDance.

AI

ERNIEBot

Baidu

Baidu crawler collecting public content for its ERNIE models.

AI

Google-CloudVertexBot

Google

Google crawler for targeted crawls requested by site owners building Vertex AI agents.

AI

Google-Extended

Google

Robots token controlling whether Google may use crawled content for Gemini training and grounding; not a separate HTTP crawler.

AI

GoogleOther

Google

Generic Google crawler used by product teams for public content fetches, including research and development.

AI

GPTBot

OpenAI

OpenAI crawler for collecting public content that may improve future models.

AI

Grok

xAI

Grok is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

AI

GrokBot

xAI

GrokBot is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

AI

KimiBot

Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI crawler collecting public content that may be used to improve Kimi.

AI

meta-externalagent

Meta

Meta crawler collecting public content to train its AI models and improve Meta products.

AI

QwenBot

Alibaba

Alibaba crawler collecting public content for its Qwen models.

AI

TongyiBot

Alibaba

TongyiBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.

AI

xAI-Bot

xAI

xAI-Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

AI

xAI-Grok

xAI

xAI-Grok is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

AI

xAI-Web-Crawler

xAI

xAI-Web-Crawler is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

AI

YiyanBot

Baidu

YiyanBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Baidu.

AI

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