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.
ChatGPT-User
OpenAI
User-triggered fetches when ChatGPT opens a page to answer a person.
Claude-User
Anthropic
User-triggered fetches when Claude opens a page to answer a person.
Copilot
Microsoft
User-triggered Microsoft Copilot fetches for AI answers.
DuckAssistBot
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo real-time crawler for AI-assisted answers with citations.
Google-Agent
Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences.
Google-NotebookLM
Google fetcher associated with NotebookLM-style answer workflows.
Google-Read-Aloud
Google fetcher associated with read-aloud and assistant experiences.
GoogleAgent
Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences.
Grok-DeepSearch
xAI
xAI fetcher used by Grok's DeepSearch to gather sources for an answer.
Kimi-User
Moonshot AI
User-triggered fetches when Kimi opens a page to answer a person.
meta-externalads
Meta
meta-externalads is an AI-related crawler operated by Meta.
meta-externalfetcher
Meta
Meta fetcher used when a person requests or shares a specific URL.
MistralAI-User
Mistral
User-triggered fetches when Mistral's Le Chat opens a page to answer a person.
OAI-AdsBot
OpenAI
OAI-AdsBot is an AI-related crawler operated by OpenAI.
Perplexity-User
Perplexity
User-triggered fetches for Perplexity answers and source citations.
Qwen-User
Alibaba
User-triggered fetches when Alibaba's Qwen opens a page to answer a person.
xAI-SearchBot
xAI
User-triggered fetches when Grok answers a person's question.
AI indexing (6)
Claude-SearchBot
Anthropic
Anthropic crawler that discovers and refreshes content for Claude search.
Kimi-SearchBot
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI crawler that builds the index behind Kimi's web answers.
meta-webindexer
Meta
Meta crawler used to improve Meta AI search result quality.
MistralAI-Index
Mistral
Mistral crawler that builds the index behind Le Chat's web answers.
OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI
OpenAI crawler that builds the search index behind ChatGPT's web results.
PerplexityBot
Perplexity
Perplexity crawler that keeps its answer and search index fresh.
AI training (25)
AI2Bot
Allen AI
AI2Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by Allen AI.
AliyunBot
Alibaba
AliyunBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.
Applebot-Extended
Apple
Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training.
Bytespider
ByteDance
ByteDance crawler collecting public content used to train its AI models.
ChatGLM-Spider
Zhipu AI
Zhipu AI crawler collecting public content for its ChatGLM models.
ClaudeBot
Anthropic
Anthropic crawler collecting public content that may be used to improve Claude.
cohere-ai
Cohere
Cohere crawler collecting public content that may improve its models.
cohere-training-data-crawler
Cohere
cohere-training-data-crawler is an AI-related crawler operated by Cohere.
DeepSeekBot
DeepSeek
DeepSeek crawler collecting public content for its models.
Doubaobot
ByteDance
Doubaobot is an AI-related crawler operated by ByteDance.
ERNIEBot
Baidu
Baidu crawler collecting public content for its ERNIE models.
Google-CloudVertexBot
Google crawler for targeted crawls requested by site owners building Vertex AI agents.
Google-Extended
Robots token controlling whether Google may use crawled content for Gemini training and grounding; not a separate HTTP crawler.
GoogleOther
Generic Google crawler used by product teams for public content fetches, including research and development.
GPTBot
OpenAI
OpenAI crawler for collecting public content that may improve future models.
Grok
xAI
Grok is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.
GrokBot
xAI
GrokBot is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.
KimiBot
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI crawler collecting public content that may be used to improve Kimi.
meta-externalagent
Meta
Meta crawler collecting public content to train its AI models and improve Meta products.
QwenBot
Alibaba
Alibaba crawler collecting public content for its Qwen models.
TongyiBot
Alibaba
TongyiBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.
xAI-Bot
xAI
xAI-Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.
xAI-Grok
xAI
xAI-Grok is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.
xAI-Web-Crawler
xAI
xAI-Web-Crawler is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.
YiyanBot
Baidu
YiyanBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Baidu.
Monitoring (1)
Search engine (12)
Amazonbot
Amazon
Amazon crawler used to improve Alexa answers and Amazon products.
Amzn-SearchBot
Amazon
Amazon crawler that makes content eligible for Amazon search experiences.
Applebot
Apple
Apple crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, spanning search and training use.
Baiduspider
Baidu
Baidu's crawler for its search index.
Bingbot
Microsoft
Microsoft crawler for Bing Search indexing.
DuckDuckBot
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo's crawler for its own search results.
Google-InspectionTool
Google crawler used by Search testing tools such as Rich Results Test and URL Inspection.
Googlebot
Google's main crawler for Search indexing and discovery.
msnbot
Microsoft
Legacy Microsoft crawler used for search indexing, now largely superseded by Bingbot.
TikTokSpider
ByteDance
ByteDance crawler associated with TikTok search and discovery.
YandexBot
Yandex
Yandex's crawler for its search index.
YouBot
You.com
You.com crawler for its search and AI answer index.
Social preview (2)
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