diff --git a/code/test_files/robots.json b/code/test_files/robots.json index 0b3dde6..998959a 100644 --- a/code/test_files/robots.json +++ b/code/test_files/robots.json @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/applebot" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/applebot" }, "Applebot-Extended": { "operator": "[Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage)", @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/kangaroo-bot" }, "Meta-ExternalAgent": { "operator": "[Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers)", @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/meta-externalfetcher" }, "OAI-SearchBot": { "operator": "[OpenAI](https://openai.com)", @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/webzio-extended" }, "YouBot": { "operator": "[You](https://about.you.com/youchat/)", diff --git a/code/test_files/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/code/test_files/table-of-bot-metrics.md index 3b1bb70..221746c 100644 --- a/code/test_files/table-of-bot-metrics.md +++ b/code/test_files/table-of-bot-metrics.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ | 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/applebot | +| 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://knownagents.com/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). | @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ | 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot | +| 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://knownagents.com/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://knownagents.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://knownagents.com/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. | @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ | 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended | +| 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://knownagents.com/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. | | crawler\.with\.dots | Test suite | No | To ensure the code works correctly. | No information. | When used in the .htaccess regular expression dots need to be escaped. | | star\*\*\*crawler | Test suite | No | To ensure the code works correctly. | No information. | When used in the .htaccess regular expression stars need to be escaped. | diff --git a/robots.json b/robots.json index e0a3ad3..67b4bfe 100644 --- a/robots.json +++ b/robots.json @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Search Crawlers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "AddSearchBot is a web crawler that indexes website content for AddSearch's AI-powered site search solution, collecting data to provide fast and accurate search results. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/addsearchbot" + "description": "AddSearchBot is a web crawler that indexes website content for AddSearch's AI-powered site search solution, collecting data to provide fast and accurate search results. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/addsearchbot" }, "AgentTimes": { "operator": "[The Agent Times](https://theagenttimes.com/about)", @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Search Crawlers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/amzn-searchbot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/amzn-searchbot" }, "Amzn-User": { "operator": "Amazon, used for fetching web content to answer user queries through Alexa and other Amazon AI services", @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/applebot" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/applebot" }, "Applebot-Extended": { "operator": "[Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage)", @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "Undocumented AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/aranet-searchbot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/aranet-searchbot" }, "atlassian-bot": { "operator": "[Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com)", @@ -144,14 +144,14 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/awario" + "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/awario" }, "AzureAI-SearchBot": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Search Crawlers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/azureai-searchbot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/azureai-searchbot" }, "bedrockbot": { "operator": "[Amazon](https://amazon.com)", @@ -214,14 +214,14 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Search Crawlers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/channel3bot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/channel3bot" }, "ChatGLM-Spider": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/chatglm-spider" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/chatglm-spider" }, "ChatGPT Agent": { "operator": "[OpenAI](https://openai.com)", @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "Undocumented AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Claude-Web is an AI-related agent operated by Anthropic. It's currently unclear exactly what it's used for, since there's no official documentation. If you can provide more detail, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/claude-web" + "description": "Claude-Web is an AI-related agent operated by Anthropic. It's currently unclear exactly what it's used for, since there's no official documentation. If you can provide more detail, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/claude-web" }, "ClaudeBot": { "operator": "[Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com)", @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "CloudVertexBot is a Google-operated crawler available to site owners to request targeted crawls of their own sites for AI training purposes on the Vertex AI platform. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/cloudvertexbot" + "description": "CloudVertexBot is a Google-operated crawler available to site owners to request targeted crawls of their own sites for AI training purposes on the Vertex AI platform. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/cloudvertexbot" }, "Code": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/cohere-training-data-crawler" + "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/cohere-training-data-crawler" }, "Cotoyogi": { "operator": "[ROIS](https://ds.rois.ac.jp/en_center8/en_crawler/)", @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "Undocumented AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/crawl4ai" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/crawl4ai" }, "Crawlspace": { "operator": "[Crawlspace](https://crawlspace.dev)", @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/datenbank-crawler" + "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/datenbank-crawler" }, "DeepSeekBot": { "operator": "DeepSeek", @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/echobot-bot" + "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/echobot-bot" }, "EchoboxBot": { "operator": "[Echobox](https://echobox.com)", @@ -543,14 +543,14 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "Undocumented AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/iaskbot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/iaskbot" }, "iaskspider": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "Undocumented AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/iaskspider" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/iaskspider" }, "iaskspider/2.0": { "description": "Used to provide answers to user queries.", @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/imagespider" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/imagespider" }, "img2dataset": { "description": "Downloads large sets of images into datasets for LLM training or other purposes.", @@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/kangaroo-bot" }, "Kimi-User": { "operator": "Moonshot AI that fetches web content on behalf of users interacting with Kimi", @@ -634,14 +634,14 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "Undocumented AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/kunatocrawler" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/kunatocrawler" }, "laion-huggingface-processor": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/laion-huggingface-processor" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/laion-huggingface-processor" }, "LAIONDownloader": { "operator": "[Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network](https://laion.ai/)", @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/lcc" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/lcc" }, "LinerBot": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Search Crawlers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/linkupbot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/linkupbot" }, "Manus-User": { "operator": "Butterfly Effect, a company based in China", @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/meta-externalagent" + "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/meta-externalagent" }, "meta-externalfetcher": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/meta-externalfetcher" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/meta-externalfetcher" }, "meta-webindexer": { "operator": "[Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/)", @@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "netEstate Imprint Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by netEstate. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/netestate-imprint-crawler" + "description": "netEstate Imprint Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by netEstate. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/netestate-imprint-crawler" }, "newsai": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", @@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Assistants", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant that helps users synthesize information from their own uploaded sources, such as documents, transcripts, or web content. It can generate summaries, answer questions, and highlight key themes from the materials you provide, acting like a personalized research companion built on Google's Gemini model. NotebookLM fetches source URLs when users add them to their notebooks, enabling the AI to access and analyze those pages for context and insights. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/google-notebooklm" + "description": "NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant that helps users synthesize information from their own uploaded sources, such as documents, transcripts, or web content. It can generate summaries, answer questions, and highlight key themes from the materials you provide, acting like a personalized research companion built on Google's Gemini model. NotebookLM fetches source URLs when users add them to their notebooks, enabling the AI to access and analyze those pages for context and insights. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/google-notebooklm" }, "NovaAct": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", @@ -816,14 +816,14 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Operator is an AI agent created by OpenAI 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/operator" + "description": "Operator is an AI agent created by OpenAI 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://knownagents.com/agents/operator" }, "PanguBot": { "operator": "the Chinese company Huawei", "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "PanguBot is a web crawler operated by the Chinese company Huawei. It's used to download training data for its multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) called PanGu. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/pangubot" + "description": "PanguBot is a web crawler operated by the Chinese company Huawei. It's used to download training data for its multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) called PanGu. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/pangubot" }, "Panscient": { "operator": "[Panscient](https://panscient.com)", @@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/spider" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/spider" }, "TavilyBot": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", @@ -1047,21 +1047,21 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/wardbot" + "description": "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://knownagents.com/agents/wardbot" }, "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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended" + "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://knownagents.com/agents/webzio-extended" }, "webzio-extended": { "operator": "Unclear at this time.", "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Data Scrapers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/webzio-extended" }, "wpbot": { "operator": "[QuantumCloud](https://www.quantumcloud.com)", @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "Undocumented AI Agents", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/wrtnbot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/wrtnbot" }, "YaK": { "operator": "[Meltwater](https://www.meltwater.com/en/suite/consumer-intelligence)", @@ -1110,6 +1110,6 @@ "respect": "Unclear at this time.", "function": "AI Search Crawlers", "frequency": "Unclear at this time.", - "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/zanistabot" + "description": "Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/zanistabot" } } \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md index 9b07a72..602a52f 100644 --- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md +++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ | Name | Operator | Respects `robots.txt` | Data use | Visit regularity | Description | |------|----------|-----------------------|----------|------------------|-------------| -| AddSearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | AddSearchBot is a web crawler that indexes website content for AddSearch's AI-powered site search solution, collecting data to provide fast and accurate search results. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/addsearchbot | +| AddSearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | AddSearchBot is a web crawler that indexes website content for AddSearch's AI-powered site search solution, collecting data to provide fast and accurate search results. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/addsearchbot | | AgentTimes | [The Agent Times](https://theagenttimes.com/about) | Unclear at this time. | Data Scraper from RSS Feeds. | Requests RSS feed every 5-6 minutes. | Scrapes data for AI news aggregation and republishing. | | 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\-DeepResearchEval | Ai2, a non-profit AI research institute | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Ai2Bot-DeepResearchEval is operated by Ai2, a non-profit AI research institute. It's used to collect and scan resources used in deep research queries performed by Ai2's o… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/ai2bot-deepresearcheval | @@ -9,19 +9,19 @@ | amazon\-kendra | Amazon | Yes | Collects data for AI natural language search | No information provided. | Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate intelligent search service that enables your users to search unstructured data using natural language. It returns specific answers to questions, giving users an experience that's close to interacting with a human expert. It is highly scalable and capable of meeting performance demands, tightly integrated with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Lex, and offers enterprise-grade security. | | 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. | | AmazonBuyForMe | [Amazon](https://amazon.com) | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | No information provided. | AmazonBuyForMe is an Amazon bot that crawls websites as part of the Amazon Buy For Me service. This bot visits product pages and e-commerce websites to gather product inf… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/amazonbuyforme | -| Amzn\-SearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/amzn-searchbot | +| Amzn\-SearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/amzn-searchbot | | Amzn\-User | Amazon, used for fetching web content to answer user queries through Alexa and other Amazon AI services | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Amzn-User is an AI assistant operated by Amazon, used for fetching web content to answer user queries through Alexa and other Amazon AI services. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/amzn-user | | Andibot | [Andi](https://andisearch.com/) | Unclear at this time | Search engine using generative AI, AI Search Assistant | No information provided. | Scrapes website and provides AI summary. | | Anomura | [Direqt](https://direqt.ai) | Yes | Collects data for AI search | No information provided. | Anomura is Direqt's search crawler, it discovers and indexes pages their customers websites. | | 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. | | ApifyBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | ApifyBot is a web scraping and data extraction crawler by Apify that collects website content for use in AI, LLMs, RAG, and automation workflows. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/apifybot | | ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler is a web crawler by Apify that extracts and downloads full website content for use in AI, data analysis, and automation workflows. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/apifywebsitecontentcrawler | -| 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/applebot | +| 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://knownagents.com/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. | -| Aranet\-SearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/aranet-searchbot | +| Aranet\-SearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/aranet-searchbot | | atlassian\-bot | [Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com) | [Yes](https://support.atlassian.com/organization-administration/docs/connect-custom-website-to-rovo/#Editing-your-robots.txt) | AI search, assistants and agents | No information provided. | atlassian-bot is a web crawler used to index website content for its AI search, assistants and agents available in its Rovo GenAI product. | -| 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/awario | -| AzureAI\-SearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/azureai-searchbot | +| 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://knownagents.com/agents/awario | +| AzureAI\-SearchBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/azureai-searchbot | | 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. | | bigsur\.ai | Big Sur AI that fetches website content to enable AI-powered web agents, sales assistants, and content marketing solutions for busi… | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | bigsur.ai is a web crawler operated by Big Sur AI that fetches website content to enable AI-powered web agents, sales assistants, and content marketing solutions for busi… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/bigsur-ai | | Bravebot | https://safe.search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler | Yes | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | Bravebot is a web crawler by Brave that indexes pages for Brave Search, providing search data and AI-optimized context to power chatbots, agents, and RAG pipelines. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/bravebot | @@ -30,31 +30,31 @@ | BuddyBot | [BuddyBotLearning](https://www.buddybotlearning.com) | Unclear at this time. | AI Learning Companion | Unclear at this time. | BuddyBot is a voice-controlled AI learning companion targeted at childhooded STEM education. | | 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). | -| Channel3Bot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/channel3bot | -| ChatGLM\-Spider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/chatglm-spider | +| Channel3Bot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/channel3bot | +| ChatGLM\-Spider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/chatglm-spider | | ChatGPT Agent | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | ChatGPT Agent is an AI agent created by OpenAI that can use a web browser. It can intelligently navigate and interact with websites to complete multi-step tasks on behalf… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/chatgpt-agent | | ChatGPT\-User | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | AI Assistants | Only when prompted by a user. | ChatGPT-User is OpenAI's web crawler that visits websites when ChatGPT users request information. This enables ChatGPT to include links in its responses. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/chatgpt-user | | Claude\-Code | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Coding Agents | Unclear at this time. | Claude Code is an AI coding agent by Anthropic that can build, debug, and ship code directly from the terminal, handling tasks like codebase onboarding, multi-file edits,… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/claude-code | | Claude\-SearchBot | [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) | Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for users. It analyzes online content specifically to enhance the relevance and accuracy of search responses. | No information provided. | Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for users. It analyzes online content specifically to enhance the relevance and accuracy of search responses. | | Claude\-User | [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) | AI Assistants | No information provided. | Claude-User is dispatched by Anthropic's Claude AI assistant in response to user prompts, when it needs to fetch content to include in its answers. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/claude-user | -| Claude\-Web | Anthropic | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Claude-Web is an AI-related agent operated by Anthropic. It's currently unclear exactly what it's used for, since there's no official documentation. If you can provide more detail, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/claude-web | +| Claude\-Web | Anthropic | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Claude-Web is an AI-related agent operated by Anthropic. It's currently unclear exactly what it's used for, since there's no official documentation. If you can provide more detail, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/claude-web | | 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. | | Cloudflare\-AutoRAG | [Cloudflare](https://developers.cloudflare.com/autorag) | Yes | Collects data for AI search | Unclear at this time. | AutoRAG is an all-in-one AI search solution. | -| CloudVertexBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | CloudVertexBot is a Google-operated crawler available to site owners to request targeted crawls of their own sites for AI training purposes on the Vertex AI platform. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/cloudvertexbot | +| CloudVertexBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | CloudVertexBot is a Google-operated crawler available to site owners to request targeted crawls of their own sites for AI training purposes on the Vertex AI platform. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/cloudvertexbot | | Code | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Coding Agents | Unclear at this time. | Code (GitHub Copilot) is an AI coding agent that can autonomously plan, build, and execute development tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI pair programmer. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/code | | 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. | -| 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/cohere-training-data-crawler | +| 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://knownagents.com/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. | | CragCrawler | CragSoftware, a Brazil-based software company specializing in data engineering and AI web scraping services | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | CragCrawler is a web scraping bot operated by CragSoftware, a Brazil-based software company specializing in data engineering and AI web scraping services. The bot is used… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/cragcrawler | -| Crawl4AI | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/crawl4ai | +| Crawl4AI | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/crawl4ai | | 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. | | Cursor | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Coding Agents | Unclear at this time. | Cursor is an AI coding agent that helps write, edit, and understand code. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/cursor | -| 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/datenbank-crawler | +| 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://knownagents.com/agents/datenbank-crawler | | DeepSeekBot | DeepSeek | No | Training language models and improving AI products | Unclear at this time. | DeepSeekBot is a web crawler used by DeepSeek to train its language models and improve its AI products. | | Devin | Devin AI | Yes | AI Coding Agents | Unclear at this time. | Devin is a software engineering AI assistant that can browse websites and perform web-based tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI teammate for engineering teams. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/devin | | Diffbot | [Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/) | At the discretion of Diffbot users. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | Diffbot is a web crawler that extracts and structures website content using AI-powered visual understanding, providing knowledge graph data for applications like market i… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/diffbot | | DuckAssistBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | DuckAssistBot is a web crawler that scans websites to collect content for DuckDuckGo's AI-assisted answers feature, which generates brief responses to search queries usin… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/echobot-bot | +| 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://knownagents.com/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. | | ExaBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | ExaBot is a web crawler that indexes web content to power Exa's AI search engine and semantic search APIs for AI applications. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/exabot | | 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. | @@ -77,47 +77,47 @@ | 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. | | HenkBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | Henkbot crawls the web on behalf of Valyu, an AI search infrastructure provider that indexes content for use in AI-powered retrieval pipelines. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/henkbot | -| iAskBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/iaskbot | -| iaskspider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/iaskspider | +| iAskBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/iaskbot | +| iaskspider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/iaskspider | | iaskspider/2\.0 | iAsk | No | Crawls sites to provide answers to user queries. | Unclear at this time. | Used to provide answers to user queries. | | IbouBot | Ibou | Yes | Search result generation. | Unclear at this time. | Ibou.io operates a crawler service named IbouBot which fuels and updates their graph representation of the World Wide Web. This database and all the metrics are used to provide a search engine. | | 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 their 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. Their web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images. | -| imageSpider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/imagespider | +| imageSpider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/imagespider | | 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. | | kagi\-fetcher | Kagi that fetches web content to answer user queries through Kagi AI, their suite of AI-powered tools including Assistant, Res… | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | kagi-fetcher is an AI Assistant operated by Kagi that fetches web content to answer user queries through Kagi AI, their suite of AI-powered tools including Assistant, Res… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/kagi-fetcher | -| 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/kangaroo-bot | +| 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://knownagents.com/agents/kangaroo-bot | | Kimi\-User | Moonshot AI that fetches web content on behalf of users interacting with Kimi | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Kimi-User is a web crawler operated by Moonshot AI that fetches web content on behalf of users interacting with Kimi. When a user asks Kimi to summarize an article or ans… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/kimi-user | | KlaviyoAIBot | [Klaviyo](https://www.klaviyo.com) | [Yes](https://help.klaviyo.com/hc/en-us/articles/40496146232219) | AI Assistants | Indexes based on 'change signals' and user configuration. | KlaviyoAIBot is Klaviyo's web crawler that fetches publicly available pages from domains explicitly connected to user accounts to power the Kai Customer Agent feature. Th… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/klaviyoaibot | -| KunatoCrawler | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/kunatocrawler | -| laion\-huggingface\-processor | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/laion-huggingface-processor | +| KunatoCrawler | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/kunatocrawler | +| laion\-huggingface\-processor | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/laion-huggingface-processor | | LAIONDownloader | [Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network](https://laion.ai/) | [No](https://laion.ai/faq/) | AI tools and models for machine learning research. | Unclear at this time. | LAIONDownloader is a bot by LAION, a non-profit organization that provides datasets, tools and models to liberate machine learning research. | -| LCC | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/lcc | +| LCC | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/lcc | | LinerBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | LinerBot is the web crawler used by Liner AI assistant to gather information from academic sources and websites to provide accurate answers with line-by-line source citat… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/linerbot | | Linguee Bot | [Linguee](https://www.linguee.com) | No | AI powered translation service | Unclear at this time. | Linguee Bot is a web crawler used by Linguee to gather training data for its AI powered translation service. | -| LinkupBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/linkupbot | +| LinkupBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/linkupbot | | Manus\-User | Butterfly Effect, a company based in China | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Manus-User is a browser-enabled AI agent operated by Butterfly Effect, a company based in China. It autonomously navigates websites, interprets content, and carries out m… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/manus-user | | 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\-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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/meta-externalagent | +| 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://knownagents.com/agents/meta-externalagent | | meta\-externalfetcher | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | meta-externalfetcher is used by Meta to perform user-initiated fetches of individual links from AI assistant product functions. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/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://knownagents.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://knownagents.com/agents/meta-externalfetcher | | meta\-webindexer | [Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/) | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unhinged, more than 1 per second. | As per their documentation, "The Meta-WebIndexer crawler navigates the web to improve Meta AI search result quality for users. In doing so, Meta analyzes online content to enhance the relevance and accuracy of Meta AI. Allowing Meta-WebIndexer in your robots.txt file helps us cite and link to your content in Meta AI's responses." | | MistralAI\-User | Mistral | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | MistralAI-User is Mistral's AI assistant bot that performs web browsing and data gathering tasks for users in Le Chat, including opening web pages and retrieving informat… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/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. | | NagetBot | Naget Inc (founded by Chris Samarinas, headquarter in Amherst, Massachusetts) | Unclear at this time. | AI data scraper | Unclear at this time. | 'Naget revolutionizes content discovery through an AI-powered ecosystem that transforms how we generate, organize, share, and discover valuable content.' (https://naget.com/) User-agent string links https://naget.ai/bot which yields 404. | -| netEstate Imprint Crawler | netEstate | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | netEstate Imprint Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by netEstate. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/netestate-imprint-crawler | +| netEstate Imprint Crawler | netEstate | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | netEstate Imprint Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by netEstate. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/netestate-imprint-crawler | | newsai | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI data scraper | Unclear at this time. | User-agent string doen't contain an URL and there multiple sites using the newsai brand. | -| NotebookLM | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant that helps users synthesize information from their own uploaded sources, such as documents, transcripts, or web content. It can generate summaries, answer questions, and highlight key themes from the materials you provide, acting like a personalized research companion built on Google's Gemini model. NotebookLM fetches source URLs when users add them to their notebooks, enabling the AI to access and analyze those pages for context and insights. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/google-notebooklm | +| NotebookLM | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant that helps users synthesize information from their own uploaded sources, such as documents, transcripts, or web content. It can generate summaries, answer questions, and highlight key themes from the materials you provide, acting like a personalized research companion built on Google's Gemini model. NotebookLM fetches source URLs when users add them to their notebooks, enabling the AI to access and analyze those pages for context and insights. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/google-notebooklm | | 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… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/novaact | | 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. | | OpenAI | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | The purpose of this bot is unclear at this time but it is a member of OpenAI's suite of crawlers. | | opencode | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Coding Agents | Unclear at this time. | OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that helps developers write code from the terminal, IDE, or desktop, supporting multiple LLM providers and local models. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/opencode | -| Operator | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Operator is an AI agent created by OpenAI 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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/operator | -| PanguBot | the Chinese company Huawei | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | PanguBot is a web crawler operated by the Chinese company Huawei. It's used to download training data for its multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) called PanGu. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/pangubot | +| Operator | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Operator is an AI agent created by OpenAI 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://knownagents.com/agents/operator | +| PanguBot | the Chinese company Huawei | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | PanguBot is a web crawler operated by the Chinese company Huawei. It's used to download training data for its multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) called PanGu. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/pangubot | | Panscient | [Panscient](https://panscient.com) | [Yes](https://panscient.com/faq.htm) | Data collection and analysis using machine learning and AI. | The Panscient web crawler will request a page at most once every second from the same domain name or the same IP address. | Compiles data on businesses and business professionals that is structured using AI and machine learning. | | panscient\.com | [Panscient](https://panscient.com) | [Yes](https://panscient.com/faq.htm) | Data collection and analysis using machine learning and AI. | The Panscient web crawler will request a page at most once every second from the same domain name or the same IP address. | Compiles data on businesses and business professionals that is structured using AI and machine learning. | | Perplexity\-User | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/bots) | AI Assistants | Only when prompted by a user. | Perplexity-User supports user actions within Perplexity. When users ask Perplexity a question, it might visit a web page to help provide an accurate answer and include a … More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/perplexity-user | @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ | Shap\-User | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | Shap-User accesses web content on behalf of users of Parallel Web Systems products. It identifies user-initiated requests rather than automatic web crawling. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/shap-user | | ShapBot | [Parallel](https://parallel.ai) | [Yes](https://docs.parallel.ai/features/crawler) | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | ShapBot is a web crawler by Parallel that collects and structures web content to power its search, extraction, and deep research APIs, providing AI agents with high-accur… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/shapbot | | 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. | -| Spider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/spider | +| Spider | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/spider | | TavilyBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | TavilyBot is a web crawler by Tavily that indexes and extracts content from billions of pages, providing real-time search, extraction, and research data to ground AI agen… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/tavilybot | | Terra Cotta | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | Terra Cotta is Ceramic's web crawler that indexes public content to power their web-scale search API for AI and LLMs. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/terra-cotta | | TerraCotta | [Ceramic AI](https://ceramic.ai/) | [Yes](https://github.com/CeramicTeam/CeramicTerracotta) | AI Data Providers | Unclear at this time. | TerraCotta is Ceramic's web crawler that indexes public content to power their web-scale search API for AI and LLMs. More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/terracotta | @@ -149,13 +149,13 @@ | TwinAgent | Twin, a platform that creates automated workers to perform tasks by integrating with APIs and controlling web applications through browser automa… | Unclear at this time. | AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | TwinAgent is operated by Twin, a platform that creates automated workers to perform tasks by integrating with APIs and controlling web applications through browser automa… More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/twinagent | | UseAI | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Assistants | Unclear at this time. | UseAI is a web crawler associated with Use AI, a platform that provides an AI workspace where users can chat with AI models, research the web, and perform various tasks. … More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/useai | | 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://knownagents.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://knownagents.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended | -| webzio\-extended | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/webzio-extended | +| 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://knownagents.com/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://knownagents.com/agents/webzio-extended | +| webzio\-extended | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Data Scrapers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/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. | -| WRTNBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/wrtnbot | +| WRTNBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | Undocumented AI Agents | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/wrtnbot | | YaK | [Meltwater](https://www.meltwater.com/en/suite/consumer-intelligence) | Unclear at this time. | According to the [Meltwater Consumer Intelligence page](https://www.meltwater.com/en/suite/consumer-intelligence) 'By applying AI, data science, and market research expertise to a live feed of global data sources, we transform unstructured data into actionable insights allowing better decision-making'. | Unclear at this time. | Retrieves data used for Meltwater's AI enabled consumer intelligence suite | | 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. | | YandexAdditionalBot | [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. | | 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. | -| ZanistaBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/agents/zanistabot | +| ZanistaBot | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | AI Search Crawlers | Unclear at this time. | Description unavailable from knownagents.com More info can be found at https://knownagents.com/agents/zanistabot |