CCBot
What is CCBot?
About
CCBot is Common Crawl's web crawler that creates an open repository of web data, making crawled content universally accessible for research, analysis, and AI training purposes. You can see how often CCBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Expected Behavior
It's generally unclear how AI data scrapers choose which websites to crawl and how often to crawl them. They might choose to visits websites with a higher information density more frequently, depending on the type of AI models they're training. For example, it would make sense that an agent training an LLM (Large Language Model) would favor sites with a lot of regularly updating text content.
Type
Detail
| Operated By | Common Crawl |
| Last Updated | 16 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Data Scrapers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block CCBot?
It's up to you. AI data scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you're concerned about attribution or how your creative work could be used in the resulting AI model.
How Do I Block CCBot?
You can block CCBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
| User Agent String | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CCbot/2.0; +http://commoncrawl.org/faq/) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: CCBot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/ccbot
Disallow: /
⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.