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title: "What is Claude-SearchBot? Anthropic's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Anthropic crawler that discovers and refreshes content for Claude search."
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# Claude-SearchBot

by Anthropic

AI indexing AI UA + IP range

Builds the index an AI assistant searches when it needs to find and cite a source.

Anthropic crawler that discovers and refreshes content for Claude search.

## What it usually means

Anthropic is indexing this page so Claude can find and cite it when answering questions.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`claude-searchbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: Claude-SearchBot`

Free tools

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

## How it's verified

Published IP-range endpoints

-   [https://claude.com/crawling/bots.json](https://claude.com/crawling/bots.json)

Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026

`216.73.216.0/22``34.162.230.222/32``34.162.244.71/32``34.162.191.81/32``34.150.241.79/32``34.85.172.162/32``35.245.175.129/32``34.182.222.37/32``34.186.108.163/32``35.245.89.239/32`

1 IP source configured

[Anthropic's page for Claude-SearchBot](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler)

## Sources

-   [Anthropic crawler docs](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler)
-   [Published IP ranges](https://claude.com/crawling/bots.json)

## More from Anthropic

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Claude-User

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

](/bot-directory/claude-user)[

ClaudeBot

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

](/bot-directory/claudebot)

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