Kangaroo Bot
What is Kangaroo Bot?
About
Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train open source AI models tailored to Australian language and culture. You can see how often Kangaroo Bot 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.
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Detail
Operated By | Kangaroo LLM |
Last Updated | 1 day ago |
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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Data Scrapers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Kangaroo Bot?
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 Kangaroo Bot?
You can block Kangaroo Bot 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.
# robots.txt
# This should block Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /