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title: "What is ClaudeBot? Anthropic's Bot Explained | Kitbase"
description: "Anthropic crawler collecting public content that may be used to improve Claude."
canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/claudebot
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# ClaudeBot

by Anthropic

AI training AI UA + IP range

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

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

## What it usually means

Anthropic crawled this page as potential training data, unconnected to any individual user's question.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`claudebot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: ClaudeBot`

Free tools

[Verify a ClaudeBot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=claudebot) [Check if your site allows ClaudeBot](/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 ClaudeBot](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

[

Claude-SearchBot

Anthropic crawler that discovers and refreshes content for Claude search.

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

Claude-User

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

](/bot-directory/claude-user)

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Applebot-Extended

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Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training.

](/bot-directory/applebot-extended)[

Bytespider

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## See if ClaudeBot has visited your site

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