ai.robots.txt/table-of-bot-metrics.md

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Name Operator Respects robots.txt Data use Visit regularity Description
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."
GoogleOther-Image 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."
GoogleOther-Video 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 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.
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta 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."
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Yes Search result generation. No information. Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT.
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.
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.
Scrapy Zyte Unclear at this time. Scrapes data 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."
Timpibot Timpi Unclear at this time. Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. No information. Makes data available for training AI models.
VelenPublicWebCrawler Velen Crawler Yes 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."
YouBot You Yes Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs. No information. Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs.