From c7b781034ebd9acac9ae9ffd33aad846b746dc72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "ai.robots.txt" Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 19:29:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] chore: restore FriendlyCrawler + ImageSift --- robots.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ table-of-bot-metrics.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 robots.txt create mode 100644 table-of-bot-metrics.md diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88cdfcb --- /dev/null +++ b/robots.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +User-agent: Amazonbot +User-agent: anthropic-ai +User-agent: Applebot-Extended +User-agent: Bytespider +User-agent: CCBot +User-agent: ChatGPT-User +User-agent: ClaudeBot +User-agent: Claude-Web +User-agent: cohere-ai +User-agent: Diffbot +User-agent: FacebookBot +User-agent: facebookexternalhit +User-agent: FriendlyCrawler +User-agent: Google-Extended +User-agent: GoogleOther +User-agent: GoogleOther-Image +User-agent: GoogleOther-Video +User-agent: GPTBot +User-agent: ICC-Crawler +User-agent: ImageSift +User-agent: img2dataset +User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent +User-agent: OAI-SearchBot +User-agent: omgili +User-agent: omgilibot +User-agent: PerplexityBot +User-agent: PetalBot +User-agent: Scrapy +User-agent: Timpibot +User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler +User-agent: YouBot +Disallow: / \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4940112 --- /dev/null +++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +| Name | Operator | Respects `robots.txt` | Data use | Visit regularity | Description | +|-----|----------|-----------------------|----------|------------------|-------------| +| Amazonbot | Amazon | Yes | Service improvement and enabling answers for Alexa users. | No information. provided. | Includes references to crawled website when surfacing answers via Alexa; does not clearly outline other uses. | +| anthropic-ai | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information. provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. | +| Applebot-Extended | [Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage) | Yes | Powers features in Siri, Spotlight, Safari, Apple Intelligence, and others. | Unclear at this time. | Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended ... [that is] used to train Apple's foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools. | +| Bytespider | ByteDance | No | LLM training. | Unclear at this time. | Downloads data to train LLMS, including ChatGPT competitors. | +| CCBot | [Common Crawl](https://commoncrawl.org) | [Yes](https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot) | Provides crawl data for an open source repository that has been used to train LLMs. | Unclear at this time. | Sources data that is made openly available and is used to train AI models. | +| ChatGPT-User | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Takes action based on user prompts. | Only when prompted by a user. | Used by plugins in ChatGPT to answer queries based on user input. | +| ClaudeBot | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information. provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. | +| Claude-Web | [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data to train Anthropic's AI products. | No information. provided. | Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products offered by Anthropic. | +| cohere-ai | [Cohere](https://cohere.com) | Unclear at this time. | Retrieves data to provide responses to user-initiated prompts. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Retrieves data based on user prompts. | +| Diffbot | [Diffbot](https://www.diffbot.com/) | At the discretion of Diffbot users. | Aggregates structured web data for monitoring and AI model training. | Unclear at this time. | Diffbot is an application used to parse web pages into structured data; this data is used for monitoring or AI model training. | +| FacebookBot | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | Training language models | Up to 1 page per second | Officially used for training Meta "speech recognition technology," unknown if used to train Meta AI specifically. | +| facebookexternalhit | Meta/Facebook | [Yes](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/) | No information. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear at this time. | +| FriendlyCrawler | Unknown | [Yes](https://imho.alex-kunz.com/2024/01/25/an-update-on-friendly-crawler) | We are using the data from the crawler to build datasets for machine learning experiments. | Unclear at this time. | Unclear who the operator is; but data is used for training/machine learning. | +| Google-Extended | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | LLM training. | No information. | Used to train Gemini and Vertex AI generative APIs. Does not impact a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search. | +| GoogleOther | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." | +| GoogleOther-Image | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." | +| GoogleOther-Video | Google | [Yes](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) | Scrapes data. | No information. | "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development." | +| GPTBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | Yes | Scrapes data to train OpenAI's products. | No information. | Data is used to train current and future models, removed paywalled data, PII and data that violates the company's policies. | +| ICC-Crawler | [NICT](https://nict.go.jp) | Yes | Scrapes data to train and support AI technologies. | No information. | Use the collected data for artificial intelligence technologies; provide data to third parties, including commercial companies; those companies can use the data for their own business. | +| ImageSift | [ImageSift](https://imagesift.com) | [Yes](https://imagesift.com/about) | ImageSiftBot is a web crawler that scrapes the internet for publicly available images to support our suite of web intelligence products | No information. | Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, ImageSift analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Our web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images. | +| img2dataset | [img2dataset](https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes images for use in LLMs. | At the discretion of img2dataset users. | Downloads large sets of images into datasets for LLM training or other purposes. | +| Meta-ExternalAgent | [Meta](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers) | Yes. | Used to train models and improve products. | No information. | "The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler crawls the web for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly." | +| OAI-SearchBot | [OpenAI](https://openai.com) | [Yes](https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots) | Search result generation. | No information. | Crawls sites to surface as results in SearchGPT. | +| omgili | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/) | Data is sold. | No information. | Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training. | +| omgilibot | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704003301/http://omgili.com/Crawler.html) | Data is sold. | No information. | Legacy user agent initially used for Omgili search engine. Unknown if still used, `omgili` agent still used by Webz.io. | +| PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://www.macstories.net/stories/wired-confirms-perplexity-is-bypassing-efforts-by-websites-to-block-its-web-crawler/) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries. | +| PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. | +| Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." | +| Timpibot | [Timpi](https://timpi.io) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. | No information. | Makes data available for training AI models. | +| VelenPublicWebCrawler | [Velen Crawler](https://velen.io) | [Yes](https://velen.io) | Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models. | No information. | "Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web." | +| YouBot | [You](https://about.you.com/youchat/) | [Yes](https://about.you.com/youbot/) | Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs. | No information. | Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs. |