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name: Daily Update from Dark Visitors
on:
push:
branches:
- "main"
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * *"
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git add -A
git diff --quiet && git diff --staged --quiet || (git commit -m "Daily update from Dark Visitors" && git push)
shell: bash
call-main:
needs: dark-visitors
uses: ./.github/workflows/main.yml
secrets: inherit
with:
message: "Daily update from Dark Visitors"

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on:
workflow_call:
inputs:
message:
type: string
required: true
description: The message to commit
push:
paths:
- 'robots.json'
jobs:
ai-robots-txt:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: ai-robots-txt
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 2
- run: |
git config --global user.name "ai.robots.txt"
git config --global user.email "ai.robots.txt@users.noreply.github.com"
git log -1
git status
echo "Running update script ..."
php -f code/action.php
echo "... done."
git --no-pager diff
git add -A
if [ -n "${{ inputs.message }}" ]; then
git commit -m "${{ inputs.message }}"
else
git commit -m "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}"
fi
git push
shell: bash

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.DS_Store
.venv
venv
__pycache__

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code/action.php
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<?php
/*
This script processes updates to the https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt repository.
It generates:
- robots.txt
- table-of-bot-metrics.md
*/
$robots = json_decode(file_get_contents('robots.json'), 1);
var_dump($robots);
$robots_txt = null;
$robots_table = '| Name | Operator | Respects `robots.txt` | Data use | Visit regularity | Description |'."\n";
$robots_table .= '|-----|----------|-----------------------|----------|------------------|-------------|'."\n";
foreach($robots as $robot => $details) {
$robots_txt .= 'User-agent: '.$robot."\n";
$robots_table .= '| '.$robot.' | '.$details['operator'].' | '.$details['respect'].' | '.$details['function'].' | '.$details['frequency'].' | '.$details['description'].' | '."\n";
}
$robots_txt .= 'Disallow: /';
var_dump($robots_txt);
var_dump($robots_table);
file_put_contents('robots.txt', $robots_txt);
file_put_contents('table-of-bot-metrics.md', $robots_table);

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code/dark_visitors.py
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import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
session = requests.Session()
response = session.get("https://darkvisitors.com/agents")
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
existing_content = json.loads(Path("./robots.json").read_text())
to_include = [
"AI Assistants",
"AI Data Scrapers",
"AI Search Crawlers",
# "Archivers",
# "Developer Helpers",
# "Fetchers",
# "Intelligence Gatherers",
# "Scrapers",
# "Search Engine Crawlers",
# "SEO Crawlers",
# "Uncategorized",
"Undocumented AI Agents"
]
def get_updated_robots_json():
session = requests.Session()
response = session.get("https://darkvisitors.com/agents")
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
for section in soup.find_all("div", {"class": "agent-links-section"}):
category = section.find("h2").get_text()
if category not in to_include:
continue
for agent in section.find_all("a", href=True):
name = agent.find("div", {"class": "agent-name"}).get_text().strip()
desc = agent.find("p").get_text().strip()
default_values = {
"Unclear at this time.",
"No information provided.",
"No information.",
"No explicit frequency provided."
}
default_value = "Unclear at this time."
# Parse the operator information from the description if possible
operator = default_value
if "operated by " in desc:
try:
operator = desc.split("operated by ", 1)[1].split(".", 1)[0].strip()
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
def consolidate(field: str, value: str) -> str:
# New entry
if name not in existing_content:
return value
# New field
if field not in existing_content[name]:
return value
# Unclear value
if existing_content[name][field] in default_values and value not in default_values:
return value
# Existing value
return existing_content[name][field]
existing_content = json.loads(Path("./robots.json").read_text())
to_include = [
"AI Assistants",
"AI Data Scrapers",
"AI Search Crawlers",
# "Archivers",
# "Developer Helpers",
# "Fetchers",
# "Intelligence Gatherers",
# "Scrapers",
# "Search Engine Crawlers",
# "SEO Crawlers",
# "Uncategorized",
"Undocumented AI Agents",
]
existing_content[name] = {
"operator": consolidate("operator", operator),
"respect": consolidate("respect", default_value),
"function": consolidate("function", f"{category}"),
"frequency": consolidate("frequency", default_value),
"description": consolidate("description", f"{desc} More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents{agent['href']}")
}
for section in soup.find_all("div", {"class": "agent-links-section"}):
category = section.find("h2").get_text()
if category not in to_include:
continue
for agent in section.find_all("a", href=True):
name = agent.find("div", {"class": "agent-name"}).get_text().strip()
desc = agent.find("p").get_text().strip()
print(f"Total: {len(existing_content)}")
sorted_keys = sorted(existing_content, key=lambda k: k.lower())
existing_content = {k: existing_content[k] for k in sorted_keys}
Path("./robots.json").write_text(json.dumps(existing_content, indent=4))
default_values = {
"Unclear at this time.",
"No information provided.",
"No information.",
"No explicit frequency provided.",
}
default_value = "Unclear at this time."
# Parse the operator information from the description if possible
operator = default_value
if "operated by " in desc:
try:
operator = desc.split("operated by ", 1)[1].split(".", 1)[0].strip()
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error: {e}")
def consolidate(field: str, value: str) -> str:
# New entry
if name not in existing_content:
return value
# New field
if field not in existing_content[name]:
return value
# Unclear value
if (
existing_content[name][field] in default_values
and value not in default_values
):
return value
# Existing value
return existing_content[name][field]
existing_content[name] = {
"operator": consolidate("operator", operator),
"respect": consolidate("respect", default_value),
"function": consolidate("function", f"{category}"),
"frequency": consolidate("frequency", default_value),
"description": consolidate(
"description",
f"{desc} More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents{agent['href']}",
),
}
print(f"Total: {len(existing_content)}")
sorted_keys = sorted(existing_content, key=lambda k: k.lower())
sorted_robots = {k: existing_content[k] for k in sorted_keys}
return sorted_robots
def json_to_txt(robots_json):
robots_txt = "\n".join(f"User-agent: {k}" for k in robots_json.keys())
robots_txt += "\nDisallow: /\n"
return robots_txt
def json_to_table(robots_json):
table = "| Name | Operator | Respects `robots.txt` | Data use | Visit regularity | Description |\n"
table += "|-----|----------|-----------------------|----------|------------------|-------------|\n"
for name, robot in robots_json.items():
table += f'| {name} | {robot["operator"]} | {robot["respect"]} | {robot["function"]} | {robot["frequency"]} | {robot["description"]} |\n'
return table
if __name__ == "__main__":
robots_json = get_updated_robots_json()
Path("./robots.json").write_text(json.dumps(robots_json, indent=4))
Path("./robots.txt").write_text(json_to_txt(robots_json))
Path("./table-of-bot-metrics.md").write_text(json_to_table(robots_json))

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{
"AI2Bot": {
"description": "Explores 'certain domains' to find web content.",
"frequency": "No information provided.",
"function": "Content is used to train open language models.",
"operator": "[Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler)",
"respect": "Yes"
},
"Ai2Bot-Dolma": {
"description": "Explores 'certain domains' to find web content.",
"frequency": "No information provided.",
"function": "Content is used to train open language models.",
"operator": "[Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler)",
"respect": "Yes"
},
"Amazonbot": {
"operator": "Amazon",
"respect": "Yes",
"function": "Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users.",
"frequency": "No information provided.",
"description": "Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses."
},
"anthropic-ai": {
"operator": "[Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products.",
"frequency": "No information provided.",
"description": "Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic."
},
"Applebot": {
"operator": "Unclear at this time.",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "AI Search Crawlers",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Applebot is a web crawler used by Apple to index search results that allow the Siri AI Assistant to answer user questions. Siri's answers normally contain references to the website. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/applebot"
},
"Applebot-Extended": {
"operator": "[Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage)",
"respect": "Yes",
"function": "Powers features in Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Apple Intelligence, and others.",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools."
},
"Bytespider": {
"operator": "ByteDance",
"respect": "No",
"function": "LLM training.",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors."
},
"CCBot": {
"operator": "[Common Crawl Foundation](https://commoncrawl.org)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot)",
"function": "Provides open crawl dataset, used for many purposes, including Machine Learning/AI.",
"frequency": "Monthly at present.",
"description": "Web archive going back to 2008. [Cited in thousands of research papers per year](https://commoncrawl.org/research-papers)."
},
"ChatGPT-User": {
"operator": "[OpenAI](https://openai.com)",
"respect": "Yes",
"function": "Takes action based on user prompts.",
"frequency": "Only when prompted by a user.",
"description": "Used by plugins in ChatGPT to answer queries based on user input."
},
"Claude-Web": {
"operator": "[Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products.",
"frequency": "No information provided.",
"description": "Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic."
},
"ClaudeBot": {
"operator": "[Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler)",
"function": "Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products.",
"frequency": "No information provided.",
"description": "Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic."
},
"cohere-ai": {
"operator": "[Cohere](https://cohere.com)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts.",
"frequency": "Takes action based on user prompts.",
"description": "Retrieves data based on user prompts."
},
"Diffbot": {
"operator": "[Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/)",
"respect": "At the discretion of Diffbot users.",
"function": "Aggregates structured web data for monitoring and AI model training.",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Diffbot is an application used to parse web pages into structured data; this data is used for monitoring or AI model training."
},
"FacebookBot": {
"operator": "Meta/Facebook",
"respect": "[Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/)",
"function": "Training language models",
"frequency": "Up to 1 page per second",
"description": "Officially used for training Meta \"speech recognition technology,\" unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically."
},
"facebookexternalhit": {
"description": "Unclear at this time.",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "No information.",
"operator": "Meta/Facebook",
"respect": "[Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/)"
},
"FriendlyCrawler": {
"description": "Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning.",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments.",
"operator": "Unknown",
"respect": "[Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler)"
},
"Google-Extended": {
"operator": "Google",
"respect": "[Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers)",
"function": "LLM training.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Used to train Gemini and Vertex AI generative APIs. Does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search."
},
"GoogleOther": {
"description": "\"Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development.\"",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Scrapes data.",
"operator": "Google",
"respect": "[Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers)"
},
"GoogleOther-Image": {
"description": "\"Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development.\"",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Scrapes data.",
"operator": "Google",
"respect": "[Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers)"
},
"GoogleOther-Video": {
"description": "\"Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development.\"",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Scrapes data.",
"operator": "Google",
"respect": "[Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers)"
},
"GPTBot": {
"operator": "[OpenAI](https://openai.com)",
"respect": "Yes",
"function": "Scrapes data to train OpenAI's products.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Data is used to train current and future models, removed paywalled data, PII and data that violates the company's policies."
},
"iaskspider/2.0": {
"description": "Used to provide answers to user queries.",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "Crawls sites to provide answers to user queries.",
"operator": "iAsk",
"respect": "No"
},
"ICC-Crawler": {
"description": "Use the collected data for artificial intelligence technologies; provide data to third parties, including commercial companies; those companies can use the data for their own business.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Scrapes data to train and support AI technologies.",
"operator": "[NICT](https://nict.go.jp)",
"respect": "Yes"
},
"ImagesiftBot": {
"description": "Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Our web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "ImageSiftBot is a web crawler that scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support our suite of web intelligence products",
"operator": "[ImageSift](https://imagesift.com)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://imagesift.com/about)"
},
"img2dataset": {
"description": "Downloads large sets of images into datasets for LLM training or other purposes.",
"frequency": "At the discretion of img2dataset users.",
"function": "Scrapes images for use in LLMs.",
"operator": "[img2dataset](https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time."
},
"ISSCyberRiskCrawler": {
"description": "Used to train machine learning based models to quantify cyber risk.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Scrapes data to train machine learning models.",
"operator": "[ISS-Corporate](https://iss-cyber.com)",
"respect": "No"
},
"Kangaroo Bot": {
"operator": "Unclear at this time.",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "AI Data Scrapers",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train AI models tailored to Australian language and culture. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot"
},
"Meta-ExternalAgent": {
"operator": "[Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers)",
"respect": "Yes.",
"function": "Used to train models and improve products.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "\"The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler crawls the web for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly.\""
},
"Meta-ExternalFetcher": {
"operator": "Unclear at this time.",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "AI Assistants",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher"
},
"OAI-SearchBot": {
"operator": "[OpenAI](https://openai.com)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots)",
"function": "Search result generation.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT."
},
"omgili": {
"operator": "[Webz.io](https://webz.io/)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/)",
"function": "Data is sold.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training."
},
"omgilibot": {
"description": "Legacy user agent initially used for Omgili search engine. Unknown if still used, `omgili` agent still used by Webz.io.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Data is sold.",
"operator": "[Webz.io](https://webz.io/)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704003301/http://omgili.com/Crawler.html)"
},
"PerplexityBot": {
"operator": "[Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/)",
"respect": "[No](https://www.macstories.net/stories/wired-confirms-perplexity-is-bypassing-efforts-by-websites-to-block-its-web-crawler/)",
"function": "Used to answer queries at the request of users.",
"frequency": "Takes action based on user prompts.",
"description": "Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries."
},
"PetalBot": {
"description": "Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services.",
"frequency": "No explicit frequency provided.",
"function": "Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services.",
"operator": "[Huawei](https://huawei.com/)",
"respect": "Yes"
},
"Scrapy": {
"description": "\"AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets.\"",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI.",
"operator": "[Zyte](https://www.zyte.com)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time."
},
"Sidetrade indexer bot": {
"description": "AI product training.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Extracts data for a variety of uses including training AI.",
"operator": "[Sidetrade](https://www.sidetrade.com)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time."
},
"Timpibot": {
"operator": "[Timpi](https://timpi.io)",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "Scrapes data for use in training LLMs.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Makes data available for training AI models."
},
"VelenPublicWebCrawler": {
"description": "\"Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web.\"",
"frequency": "No information.",
"function": "Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models.",
"operator": "[Velen Crawler](https://velen.io)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://velen.io)"
},
"Webzio-Extended": {
"operator": "Unclear at this time.",
"respect": "Unclear at this time.",
"function": "AI Data Scrapers",
"frequency": "Unclear at this time.",
"description": "Webzio-Extended is a web crawler used by Webz.io to maintain a repository of web crawl data that it sells to other companies, including those using it to train AI models. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended"
},
"YouBot": {
"operator": "[You](https://about.you.com/youchat/)",
"respect": "[Yes](https://about.you.com/youbot/)",
"function": "Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs.",
"frequency": "No information.",
"description": "Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs."
}
}

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User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

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| Name | Operator | Respects `robots.txt` | Data use | Visit regularity | Description |
|-----|----------|-----------------------|----------|------------------|-------------|
| AI2Bot | [Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler) | Yes | Content is used to train open language models. | No information provided. | Explores 'certain domains' to find web content. |
| Ai2Bot-Dolma | [Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler) | Yes | Content is used to train open language models. | No information provided. | Explores 'certain domains' to find web content. |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | Yes | Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users. | No information provided. | Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses. |
| anthropic-ai | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| Applebot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Applebot is a web crawler used by Apple to index search results that allow the Siri AI Assistant to answer user questions. Siri's answers normally contain references to the website. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/applebot |
| Applebot-Extended | [Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage) | Yes | Powers features in Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Apple Intelligence, and others. | Unclear at this time. | Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools. |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | No | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors. |
| CCBot | [Common Crawl Foundation](https://commoncrawl.org) | [Yes](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot) | Provides open crawl dataset, used for many purposes, including Machine Learning/AI. | Monthly at present. | Web archive going back to 2008. [Cited in thousands of research papers per year](https://commoncrawl.org/research-papers). |
| ChatGPT-User | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | Used by plugins in ChatGPT to answer queries based on user input. |
| Claude-Web | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| ClaudeBot | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | [Yes](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler) | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| cohere-ai | [Cohere](https://cohere.com) | Unclear at this time. | Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Retrieves data based on user prompts. |
| Diffbot | [Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/) | At the discretion of Diffbot users. | Aggregates structured web data for monitoring and AI model training. | Unclear at this time. | Diffbot is an application used to parse web pages into structured data; this data is used for monitoring or AI model training. |
| FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | No information. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. |
| FriendlyCrawler | Unknown | [Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler) | We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning. |
| Google-Extended | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | LLM training. | No information. | Used to train Gemini and Vertex AI generative APIs. Does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search. |
| GoogleOther | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GoogleOther-Image | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GoogleOther-Video | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GPTBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Scrapes data to train OpenAI's products. | No information. | Data is used to train current and future models, removed paywalled data, PII and data that violates the company's policies. |
| iaskspider/2.0 | iAsk | No | Crawls sites to provide answers to user queries. | Unclear at this time. | Used to provide answers to user queries. |
| ICC-Crawler | [NICT](https://nict.go.jp) | Yes | Scrapes data to train and support AI technologies. | No information. | Use the collected data for artificial intelligence technologies; provide data to third parties, including commercial companies; those companies can use the data for their own business. |
| ImagesiftBot | [ImageSift](https://imagesift.com) | [Yes](https://imagesift.com/about) | ImageSiftBot is a web crawler that scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support our suite of web intelligence products | No information. | Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Our web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images. |
| img2dataset | [img2dataset](https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes images for use in LLMs. | At the discretion of img2dataset users. | Downloads large sets of images into datasets for LLM training or other purposes. |
| ISSCyberRiskCrawler | [ISS-Corporate](https://iss-cyber.com) | No | Scrapes data to train machine learning models. | No information. | Used to train machine learning based models to quantify cyber risk. |
| Kangaroo Bot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train AI models tailored to Australian language and culture. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | [Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers) | Yes. | Used to train models and improve products. | No information. | "The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler crawls the web for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly." |
| Meta-ExternalFetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher |
| OAI-SearchBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | [Yes](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT. |
| omgili | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/) | Data is sold. | No information. | Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training. |
| omgilibot | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704003301/http://omgili.com/Crawler.html) | Data is sold. | No information. | Legacy user agent initially used for Omgili search engine. Unknown if still used, `omgili` agent still used by Webz.io. |
| PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://www.macstories.net/stories/wired-confirms-perplexity-is-bypassing-efforts-by-websites-to-block-its-web-crawler/) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries. |
| PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. |
| Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." |
| Sidetrade indexer bot | [Sidetrade](https://www.sidetrade.com) | Unclear at this time. | Extracts data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | AI product training. |
| Timpibot | [Timpi](https://timpi.io) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. | No information. | Makes data available for training AI models. |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | [Velen Crawler](https://velen.io) | [Yes](https://velen.io) | Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models. | No information. | "Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web." |
| Webzio-Extended | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Webzio-Extended is a web crawler used by Webz.io to maintain a repository of web crawl data that it sells to other companies, including those using it to train AI models. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended |
| YouBot | [You](https://about.you.com/youchat/) | [Yes](https://about.you.com/youbot/) | Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs. | No information. | Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs. |

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"""These tests can be run with pytest.
This requires pytest: pip install pytest
cd to the `code` directory and run `pytest`
"""
import json
from pathlib import Path
from dark_visitors import json_to_txt, json_to_table
def test_robots_txt_creation():
robots_json = json.loads(Path("test_files/robots.json").read_text())
robots_txt = json_to_txt(robots_json)
assert Path("test_files/robots.txt").read_text() == robots_txt
def test_table_of_bot_metrices_md():
robots_json = json.loads(Path("test_files/robots.json").read_text())
robots_table = json_to_table(robots_json)
assert Path("test_files/table-of-bot-metrics.md").read_text() == robots_table

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User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: YouBot
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| Name | Operator | Respects `robots.txt` | Data use | Visit regularity | Description |
|-----|----------|-----------------------|----------|------------------|-------------|
| AI2Bot | [Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler) | Yes | Content is used to train open language models. | No information provided. | Explores 'certain domains' to find web content. |
| Ai2Bot-Dolma | [Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler) | Yes | Content is used to train open language models. | No information provided. | Explores 'certain domains' to find web content. |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | Yes | Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users. | No information provided. | Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses. |
| anthropic-ai | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| Applebot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Applebot is a web crawler used by Apple to index search results that allow the Siri AI Assistant to answer user questions. Siri's answers normally contain references to the website. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/applebot |
| Applebot-Extended | [Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage) | Yes | Powers features in Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Apple Intelligence, and others. | Unclear at this time. | Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools. |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | No | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors. |
| CCBot | [Common Crawl Foundation](https://commoncrawl.org) | [Yes](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot) | Provides open crawl dataset, used for many purposes, including Machine Learning/AI. | Monthly at present. | Web archive going back to 2008. [Cited in thousands of research papers per year](https://commoncrawl.org/research-papers). |
| ChatGPT-User | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | Used by plugins in ChatGPT to answer queries based on user input. |
| Claude-Web | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| ClaudeBot | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | [Yes](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler) | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| cohere-ai | [Cohere](https://cohere.com) | Unclear at this time. | Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Retrieves data based on user prompts. |
| Diffbot | [Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/) | At the discretion of Diffbot users. | Aggregates structured web data for monitoring and AI model training. | Unclear at this time. | Diffbot is an application used to parse web pages into structured data; this data is used for monitoring or AI model training. |
| FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | No information. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. |
| FriendlyCrawler | Unknown | [Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler) | We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning. |
| Google-Extended | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | LLM training. | No information. | Used to train Gemini and Vertex AI generative APIs. Does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search. |
| GoogleOther | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GoogleOther-Image | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GoogleOther-Video | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GPTBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Scrapes data to train OpenAI's products. | No information. | Data is used to train current and future models, removed paywalled data, PII and data that violates the company's policies. |
| iaskspider/2.0 | iAsk | No | Crawls sites to provide answers to user queries. | Unclear at this time. | Used to provide answers to user queries. |
| ICC-Crawler | [NICT](https://nict.go.jp) | Yes | Scrapes data to train and support AI technologies. | No information. | Use the collected data for artificial intelligence technologies; provide data to third parties, including commercial companies; those companies can use the data for their own business. |
| ImagesiftBot | [ImageSift](https://imagesift.com) | [Yes](https://imagesift.com/about) | ImageSiftBot is a web crawler that scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support our suite of web intelligence products | No information. | Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Our web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images. |
| img2dataset | [img2dataset](https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes images for use in LLMs. | At the discretion of img2dataset users. | Downloads large sets of images into datasets for LLM training or other purposes. |
| ISSCyberRiskCrawler | [ISS-Corporate](https://iss-cyber.com) | No | Scrapes data to train machine learning models. | No information. | Used to train machine learning based models to quantify cyber risk. |
| Kangaroo Bot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train AI models tailored to Australian language and culture. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | [Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers) | Yes. | Used to train models and improve products. | No information. | "The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler crawls the web for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly." |
| Meta-ExternalFetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher |
| OAI-SearchBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | [Yes](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT. |
| omgili | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/) | Data is sold. | No information. | Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training. |
| omgilibot | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704003301/http://omgili.com/Crawler.html) | Data is sold. | No information. | Legacy user agent initially used for Omgili search engine. Unknown if still used, `omgili` agent still used by Webz.io. |
| PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://www.macstories.net/stories/wired-confirms-perplexity-is-bypassing-efforts-by-websites-to-block-its-web-crawler/) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries. |
| PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. |
| Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." |
| Sidetrade indexer bot | [Sidetrade](https://www.sidetrade.com) | Unclear at this time. | Extracts data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | AI product training. |
| Timpibot | [Timpi](https://timpi.io) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. | No information. | Makes data available for training AI models. |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | [Velen Crawler](https://velen.io) | [Yes](https://velen.io) | Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models. | No information. | "Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web." |
| Webzio-Extended | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Webzio-Extended is a web crawler used by Webz.io to maintain a repository of web crawl data that it sells to other companies, including those using it to train AI models. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended |
| YouBot | [You](https://about.you.com/youchat/) | [Yes](https://about.you.com/youbot/) | Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs. | No information. | Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs. |
| AI2Bot | [Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler) | Yes | Content is used to train open language models. | No information provided. | Explores 'certain domains' to find web content. |
| Ai2Bot-Dolma | [Ai2](https://allenai.org/crawler) | Yes | Content is used to train open language models. | No information provided. | Explores 'certain domains' to find web content. |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | Yes | Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users. | No information provided. | Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses. |
| anthropic-ai | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| Applebot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Applebot is a web crawler used by Apple to index search results that allow the Siri AI Assistant to answer user questions. Siri's answers normally contain references to the website. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/applebot |
| Applebot-Extended | [Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage) | Yes | Powers features in Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Apple Intelligence, and others. | Unclear at this time. | Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools. |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | No | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors. |
| CCBot | [Common Crawl Foundation](https://commoncrawl.org) | [Yes](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot) | Provides open crawl dataset, used for many purposes, including Machine Learning/AI. | Monthly at present. | Web archive going back to 2008. [Cited in thousands of research papers per year](https://commoncrawl.org/research-papers). |
| ChatGPT-User | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | Used by plugins in ChatGPT to answer queries based on user input. |
| Claude-Web | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| ClaudeBot | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | [Yes](https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler) | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. |
| cohere-ai | [Cohere](https://cohere.com) | Unclear at this time. | Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Retrieves data based on user prompts. |
| Diffbot | [Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/) | At the discretion of Diffbot users. | Aggregates structured web data for monitoring and AI model training. | Unclear at this time. | Diffbot is an application used to parse web pages into structured data; this data is used for monitoring or AI model training. |
| FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | No information. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. |
| FriendlyCrawler | Unknown | [Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler) | We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning. |
| Google-Extended | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | LLM training. | No information. | Used to train Gemini and Vertex AI generative APIs. Does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search. |
| GoogleOther | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GoogleOther-Image | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GoogleOther-Video | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." |
| GPTBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Scrapes data to train OpenAI's products. | No information. | Data is used to train current and future models, removed paywalled data, PII and data that violates the company's policies. |
| iaskspider/2.0 | iAsk | No | Crawls sites to provide answers to user queries. | Unclear at this time. | Used to provide answers to user queries. |
| ICC-Crawler | [NICT](https://nict.go.jp) | Yes | Scrapes data to train and support AI technologies. | No information. | Use the collected data for artificial intelligence technologies; provide data to third parties, including commercial companies; those companies can use the data for their own business. |
| ImagesiftBot | [ImageSift](https://imagesift.com) | [Yes](https://imagesift.com/about) | ImageSiftBot is a web crawler that scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support our suite of web intelligence products | No information. | Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Our web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images. |
| img2dataset | [img2dataset](https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes images for use in LLMs. | At the discretion of img2dataset users. | Downloads large sets of images into datasets for LLM training or other purposes. |
| ISSCyberRiskCrawler | [ISS-Corporate](https://iss-cyber.com) | No | Scrapes data to train machine learning models. | No information. | Used to train machine learning based models to quantify cyber risk. |
| Kangaroo Bot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train AI models tailored to Australian language and culture. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | [Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers) | Yes. | Used to train models and improve products. | No information. | "The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler crawls the web for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly." |
| Meta-ExternalFetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalFetcher is dispatched by Meta AI products in response to user prompts, when they need to fetch an individual links. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher |
| OAI-SearchBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | [Yes](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT. |
| omgili | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/) | Data is sold. | No information. | Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training. |
| omgilibot | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704003301/http://omgili.com/Crawler.html) | Data is sold. | No information. | Legacy user agent initially used for Omgili search engine. Unknown if still used, `omgili` agent still used by Webz.io. |
| PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://www.macstories.net/stories/wired-confirms-perplexity-is-bypassing-efforts-by-websites-to-block-its-web-crawler/) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries. |
| PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. |
| Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." |
| Sidetrade indexer bot | [Sidetrade](https://www.sidetrade.com) | Unclear at this time. | Extracts data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | AI product training. |
| Timpibot | [Timpi](https://timpi.io) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. | No information. | Makes data available for training AI models. |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | [Velen Crawler](https://velen.io) | [Yes](https://velen.io) | Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models. | No information. | "Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web." |
| Webzio-Extended | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Webzio-Extended is a web crawler used by Webz.io to maintain a repository of web crawl data that it sells to other companies, including those using it to train AI models. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended |
| YouBot | [You](https://about.you.com/youchat/) | [Yes](https://about.you.com/youbot/) | Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs. | No information. | Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs. |