ai.robots.txt/table-of-bot-metrics.md
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Name Operator Respects robots.txt Data use Visit regularity Description
AdsBot-Google Google Yes (Exceptions for Dynamic Search Ads) Analyzes website content for ad relevancy, improves ad serving for Google Ads. Data anonymized according to Google's Privacy Policy. Unclear on data retention or use by other products. Varies depending on campaign activity and website updates. Crawls optimized to minimize impact, specific frequency not public. Web crawler by Google Ads to analyze websites for ad effectiveness and ensure ad relevancy to webpage 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 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-Extended Apple 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 Yes Provides crawl data for an open source repository that has been used to train LLMs. Unclear at this time. Sources data that is made openly available and is used to train AI models.
ChatGPT-User OpenAI 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.
ClaudeBot Anthropic 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.
Claude-Web Anthropic 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.
cohere-ai Cohere 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 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 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.
Google-Extended Google Yes 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 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 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.
img2dataset img2dataset At the discretion of img2dataset users. 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.
omgili Webz.io Yes 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 Yes 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.
peer39_crawler Peer39 Yes Targeted advertising. No information Web crawler used to "enhance the visibility of your site to advertisers who value and seek out such quality content."
peer39_crawler Peer39 Yes Targeted advertising. No information Web crawler used to "enhance the visibility of your site to advertisers who value and seek out such quality content."
PerplexityBot Perplexity No 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.
YouBot You Yes Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs. No information Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs.