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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Awario|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Datenbank\ Crawler|Devin|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|Echobot\ Bot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|WARDBot|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot) [NC]
RewriteRule !^/?robots\.txt$ - [F,L]

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@aibots {
header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
header_regexp User-Agent "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Awario|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Datenbank\ Crawler|Devin|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|Echobot\ Bot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|WARDBot|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)"
}

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anthropic-ai
Applebot
Applebot-Extended
Awario
bedrockbot
Brightbot 1.0
Bytespider
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cohere-training-data-crawler
Cotoyogi
Crawlspace
Datenbank Crawler
Devin
Diffbot
DuckAssistBot
Echobot Bot
EchoboxBot
FacebookBot
facebookexternalhit
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Meta-ExternalAgent
meta-externalfetcher
Meta-ExternalFetcher
MistralAI-User
MistralAI-User/1.0
MyCentralAIScraperBot
NovaAct
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TikTokSpider
Timpibot
VelenPublicWebCrawler
WARDBot
Webzio-Extended
wpbot
YandexAdditional

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if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AI2Bot|Ai2Bot\-Dolma|aiHitBot|Amazonbot|Andibot|anthropic\-ai|Applebot|Applebot\-Extended|Awario|bedrockbot|Brightbot\ 1\.0|Bytespider|CCBot|ChatGPT\-User|Claude\-SearchBot|Claude\-User|Claude\-Web|ClaudeBot|cohere\-ai|cohere\-training\-data\-crawler|Cotoyogi|Crawlspace|Datenbank\ Crawler|Devin|Diffbot|DuckAssistBot|Echobot\ Bot|EchoboxBot|FacebookBot|facebookexternalhit|Factset_spyderbot|FirecrawlAgent|FriendlyCrawler|Google\-CloudVertexBot|Google\-Extended|GoogleOther|GoogleOther\-Image|GoogleOther\-Video|GPTBot|iaskspider/2\.0|ICC\-Crawler|ImagesiftBot|img2dataset|ISSCyberRiskCrawler|Kangaroo\ Bot|meta\-externalagent|Meta\-ExternalAgent|meta\-externalfetcher|Meta\-ExternalFetcher|MistralAI\-User|MistralAI\-User/1\.0|MyCentralAIScraperBot|NovaAct|OAI\-SearchBot|omgili|omgilibot|Operator|PanguBot|Panscient|panscient\.com|Perplexity\-User|PerplexityBot|PetalBot|PhindBot|Poseidon\ Research\ Crawler|QualifiedBot|QuillBot|quillbot\.com|SBIntuitionsBot|Scrapy|SemrushBot|SemrushBot\-BA|SemrushBot\-CT|SemrushBot\-OCOB|SemrushBot\-SI|SemrushBot\-SWA|Sidetrade\ indexer\ bot|TikTokSpider|Timpibot|VelenPublicWebCrawler|WARDBot|Webzio\-Extended|wpbot|YandexAdditional|YandexAdditionalBot|YouBot)") {
return 403;
}

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User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Awario
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: Bytespider
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User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
@ -43,6 +47,7 @@ User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
User-agent: NovaAct
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User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: WARDBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: wpbot
User-agent: YandexAdditional

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| 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. |
| Awario | Awario | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Awario is an AI data scraper operated by Awario. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/awario |
| bedrockbot | [Amazon](https://amazon.com) | [Yes](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/webcrawl-data-source-connector.html#configuration-webcrawl-connector) | Data scraping for custom AI applications. | Unclear at this time. | Connects to and crawls URLs that have been selected for use in a user's AWS bedrock application. |
| Brightbot 1\.0 | Browsing.ai | Unclear at this time. | LLM/AI training. | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products focused on website customer support. |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | No | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors. |
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| cohere\-training\-data\-crawler | Cohere to download training data for its LLMs (Large Language Models) that power its enterprise AI products | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | cohere-training-data-crawler is a web crawler operated by Cohere to download training data for its LLMs (Large Language Models) that power its enterprise AI products. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/cohere-training-data-crawler |
| Cotoyogi | [ROIS](https://ds.rois.ac.jp/en_center8/en_crawler/) | Yes | AI LLM Scraper. | No information provided. | Scrapes data for AI training in Japanese language. |
| Crawlspace | [Crawlspace](https://crawlspace.dev) | [Yes](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756654) | Scrapes data | Unclear at this time. | Provides crawling services for any purpose, probably including AI model training. |
| Datenbank Crawler | Datenbank | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Datenbank Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by Datenbank. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/datenbank-crawler |
| Devin | Devin AI | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Devin is an AI assistant operated by Devin AI. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/devin |
| 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. |
| DuckAssistBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | DuckAssistBot is used by DuckDuckGo's DuckAssist feature to fetch content and generate realtime AI answers to user searches. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/duckassistbot |
| Echobot Bot | Echobox | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Echobot Bot is an AI data scraper operated by Echobox. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/echobot-bot |
| EchoboxBot | [Echobox](https://echobox.com) | Unclear at this time. | Data collection to support AI-powered products. | Unclear at this time. | Supports company's AI-powered social and email management products. |
| 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 | [No](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) | Ostensibly only for sharing, but likely used as an AI crawler as well | Unclear at this time. | Note that excluding FacebookExternalHit will block incorporating OpenGraph data when sharing in social media, including rich links in Apple's Messages app. [According to Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/), its purpose is "to crawl the content of an app or website that was shared on one of Meta’s family of apps…". However, see discussions [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/pull/21) and [here](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/issues/40#issuecomment-2524591313) for evidence to the contrary. |
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| Meta\-ExternalAgent | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Meta-ExternalAgent is a web crawler used by Meta to download training data for its AI models and improve its products by indexing content directly. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/meta-externalagent |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| MistralAI\-User | Mistral | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | MistralAI-User is an AI assistant operated by Mistral. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/mistralai-user |
| MistralAI\-User/1\.0 | Mistral AI | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | MistralAI-User is for user actions in LeChat. When users ask LeChat a question, it may visit a web page to help answer and include a link to the source in its response. |
| MyCentralAIScraperBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI data scraper | Unclear at this time. | Operator and data use is unclear at this time. |
| NovaAct | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Nova Act is an AI agent created by Amazon that can use a web browser. It can intelligently navigate and interact with websites to complete multi-step tasks on behalf of a human user. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/novaact |
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| TikTokSpider | ByteDance | Unclear at this time. | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, as per Bytespider. |
| 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." |
| WARDBot | WEBSPARK | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | WARDBot is an AI data scraper operated by WEBSPARK. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://darkvisitors.com/agents/agents/wardbot |
| 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 |
| wpbot | [QuantumCloud](https://www.quantumcloud.com) | Unclear at this time; opt out provided via [Google Form](https://forms.gle/ajBaxygz9jSR8p8G9) | Live chat support and lead generation. | Unclear at this time. | wpbot is a used to support the functionality of the AI Chatbot for WordPress plugin. It supports the use of customer models, data collection and customer support. |
| YandexAdditional | [Yandex](https://yandex.ru) | [Yes](https://yandex.ru/support/webmaster/en/search-appearance/fast.html?lang=en) | Scrapes/analyzes data for the YandexGPT LLM. | No information. | Retrieves data used for YandexGPT quick answers features. |