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

by Alibaba

AI training AI UA only (unverifiable)

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

AliyunBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.

## What it usually means

Alibaba crawled this page as part of its AI crawling.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`aliyunbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: AliyunBot`

Free tools

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

[Alibaba's page for AliyunBot](https://help.aliyun.com/en/model-studio/web-search-agent-guide)

## Sources

-   [Alibaba crawler docs](https://help.aliyun.com/en/model-studio/web-search-agent-guide)

## More from Alibaba

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Qwen-User

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

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TongyiBot

TongyiBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba.

](/bot-directory/tongyibot)[

QwenBot

Alibaba crawler collecting public content for its Qwen models.

](/bot-directory/qwenbot)

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Bytespider

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ChatGLM-Spider

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## See if AliyunBot has visited your site

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