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Claude-SearchBot

Crawlers and fetchers behind AI products: model training, AI search and assistants that fetch a page for a user.

  • Follows robots.txt
  • Can be verified
  • Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
At a glanceAnthropic
  • VerifiableIdentityIP ranges, Cloudflare
  • Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
  • PurposeAI search retrievalFor an AI product
  • TokenClaude-SearchBotUse it in a User-agent line

robots.txt

The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.

Block Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

Quick facts

robots.txt token
Claude-SearchBot
User agent contains
Claude-SearchBot
Operator
Anthropic
Category
AI bots
Purpose
AI search retrieval
robots.txt
Follows robots.txt
Verification
Can be verified
Documentation
support.claude.com · checked 28 Oct 2026

If you block it

Your pages can stop appearing, or being cited, in this product’s AI answers.

Check a visit is real

Where this comes from

The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.

Registry version 2026-10-29.1

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