Claude-Web

What is Claude-Web?

About

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. You can see how often Claude-Web visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Since the operator isn't currently sharing details about the agent's purpose, it's difficult to know how it's expected to behave. Theoretically, it could be used for multiple purpose with different behavioral patterns.

Type

Undocumented AI Agent
AI-related but without a disclosed purpose

Detail

Operated By Anthropic
Last Updated 12 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

13%
13% of top websites are blocking Claude-Web
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Country of Origin

United States
Claude-Web normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Undocumented AI Agents

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Claude-Web?

It's difficult to say. The purpose or purposes of undocumented AI agents could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what they are.

How Do I Block Claude-Web?

You can block Claude-Web 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.

How Do I Block All Undocumented AI Agents?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new undocumented AI agents automatically.
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; claude-web/1.0; +http://www.anthropic.com/bot.html)
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Claude-Web # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/claude-web
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.