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# xAI-SearchBot

by xAI

AI answers AI UA only (unverifiable)

Fetches a page when a user asks an assistant to answer with fresh web context.

User-triggered fetches when Grok answers a person's question.

## What it usually means

A person asked an AI assistant a question, and the assistant fetched this URL to answer with fresh context or citations.

## How to identify it

User-Agent tokens

`xai-searchbot`

robots.txt stanza

`User-agent: xAI-SearchBot`

Free tools

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

[xAI's page for xAI-SearchBot](https://x.ai/)

## Sources

-   [xAI crawler docs](https://x.ai/)

## More from xAI

[

Grok-DeepSearch

xAI fetcher used by Grok's DeepSearch to gather sources for an answer.

](/bot-directory/grok-deepsearch)[

xAI-Web-Crawler

xAI-Web-Crawler is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

](/bot-directory/xai-web-crawler)[

xAI-Grok

xAI-Grok is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

](/bot-directory/xai-grok)[

GrokBot

GrokBot is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

](/bot-directory/grokbot)[

xAI-Bot

xAI-Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

](/bot-directory/xai-bot)[

Grok

Grok is an AI-related crawler operated by xAI.

](/bot-directory/grok)

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](/bot-directory/copilot)

## See if xAI-SearchBot has visited your site

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