---
title: "What is CCBot? Common Crawl's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "CCBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Common Crawl. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/ccbot
---

[Home](/) [Bot Directory](/bot-directory) CCBot

# CCBot

by Common Crawl

Archiver UA + IP range

Preserves pages into a public or private archive.

CCBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Common Crawl.

## What it usually means

Common Crawl crawled this page as part of its AI crawling.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`ccbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: CCBot`

Free tools

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

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://index.commoncrawl.org/ccbot.json](https://index.commoncrawl.org/ccbot.json)

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026

`2600:1f28:365:8000::/56``3.41.188.32/29``18.97.9.168/29``18.97.14.80/29``18.97.14.88/30`

1 IP source configured

[Common Crawl's page for CCBot](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot)

## Sources

-   [Common Crawl crawler docs](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://index.commoncrawl.org/ccbot.json)

## See if CCBot has visited your site

Kitbase verifies and tracks bot and AI crawler traffic separately from human visitors, so you know exactly who's hitting your site.

[Start Free Trial](https://app.kitbase.dev/signup)