Bot Directory

A guide to the AI crawlers, agents, and search bots that visit your site — what each one does, whether it respects robots.txt, and how to block it.

36 results
AI Training
AI2Bot

Open language model training data collection

AI2Bot
Search Engine Crawler
APIs-Google

Push notification delivery for Google APIs

APIs-Google
SEO
AhrefsBot

Backlink index / SEO data collection

AhrefsBot
Aggregator
Amazon Product Discovery

Product-data collection for Amazon listings

AmazonProductDiscoverybot
AI Training
Amazon Q Business

Web content indexing for Amazon Q Business AI assistant

amazon-QBusiness
Search Engine Crawler
BingBot

Bing Search indexing

bingbot
AI Training
Bytespider

Model training data collection (feeds ByteDance/Doubao models)

Bytespider
AI Training
CCBot

Open web archive / dataset creation

CCBot
AI Assistant
ChatGPT-User

User-triggered page fetch for ChatGPT/Custom GPTs

ChatGPT-User
Monitoring & Analytics
ClarityBot

On-demand SEO page/site audit crawling

claritybot
AI Training
Claude

Legacy/general Anthropic crawler identifier

Claude
AI Assistant
Claude Code

Agentic coding assistant, on-demand web access

Claude-Code
AI Search Index
Claude-SearchBot

Search-quality indexing for Claude

Claude-SearchBot
AI Assistant
Claude-User

User-triggered retrieval for Claude

Claude-User
AI Training
ClaudeBot

Model training data collection

ClaudeBot
AI Search Index
ExaBot

Search indexing / semantic search API for Exa

ExaSearchBot
AI Assistant
FirecrawlAgent

On-demand scraping/crawling API for AI agents and apps

FirecrawlAgent
AI Training
GPTBot

Model training data collection

GPTBot
AI Assistant
Gemini Deep Research

Multi-step agentic research fetches for Gemini's Deep Research feature

gemini-deep-research
AI Assistant
Google NotebookLM

User-triggered source fetch for Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)

Google-GeminiNotebook (formerly Google-NotebookLM, legacy token supported through Aug 2026)
AI Training
Google-Extended

Gemini/Vertex AI training and grounding opt-out control

Google-Extended
Search Engine Crawler
GoogleBot

Google Search indexing

Googlebot
AI Training
GoogleOther-Image

Fetching public image URLs for internal research/development

GoogleOther-Image (also matches GoogleOther)
AI Training
GoogleOther-Video

Fetching public video URLs for internal research/development

GoogleOther-Video (also matches GoogleOther)
SEO
Moz dotbot

Backlink/link index collection

dotbot
Search Engine Crawler
OAI-SearchBot

Search indexing for ChatGPT search

OAI-SearchBot
AI Assistant
Perplexity-User

User-triggered page fetch for Perplexity answers

Perplexity-User
AI Search Index
PerplexityBot

Search indexing for Perplexity

PerplexityBot
SEO
Rytebot

On-page/technical/usability SEO analysis for Ryte.com

RyteBot
SEO
Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Desktop/on-demand SEO site crawling tool

Screaming Frog SEO Spider
SEO
SemrushBot-ES

Site audit / on-page issue analysis

SemrushBot-ES
SEO
SemrushBot-FT

Plagiarism Checker / content-matching tools

SemrushBot-FT
SEO
SimilarwebBot

Website analytics data collection (Site Audit tool)

similarweb
SEO
SplitSignalBot

SEO A/B testing

SplitSignalBot
AI Training
TikTokSpider

Link-preview generation for TikTok

TikTokSpider
Search Engine Crawler
YisouSpider

Search engine indexing (Shenma mobile search, China)

YisouSpider (also seen lowercase yisouspider)
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