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title: "What is AI2Bot? Allen AI's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "AI2Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by Allen AI. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
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# AI2Bot

by Allen AI

AI training AI UA only (unverifiable)

Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.

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

## What it usually means

Allen AI crawled this page as part of its AI crawling.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`ai2bot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: AI2Bot`

Free tools

[Verify a AI2Bot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=ai2bot) [Check if your site allows AI2Bot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker)

[Allen AI's page for AI2Bot](https://allenai.org/crawler)

## Sources

-   [Allen AI crawler docs](https://allenai.org/crawler)

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## See if AI2Bot has visited your site

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