ClaudeBot
What is ClaudeBot?
About
ClaudeBot is a web crawler operated by Anthropic to download training data for its LLMs (Large Language Models) that power AI products like Claude.
You can set up agent analytics to see when ClaudeBot visits your website.
Detail
| Operator | Anthropic |
| Documentation | https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler |
Type
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.
Insights
ClaudeBot Visiting Your Website
Other Websites
Access Control
Should I Block ClaudeBot?
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.
Using Robots.txt
You can block ClaudeBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. We recommend setting up agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
| User Agent Token | Description |
|---|---|
ClaudeBot |
Should match instances of ClaudeBot |
# robots.txt
# This should block ClaudeBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /