Claude SearchBot
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What is Claude SearchBot?
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Anthropic's crawler for improving search result quality
Anthropic
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com) in your website logs, it indicates that Claude SearchBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
AI search indexers crawl websites to build an AI assistant's own search index. When someone asks the assistant a question, it searches this index to find pages to read and cite. Blocking an AI search indexer may keep your pages out of that assistant's search results. Assistants also find pages in other ways, so a blocked site may still be cited.
Should I Block Claude SearchBot?
This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.
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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block Claude SearchBot?
You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
Claude-SearchBot\/[0-9]Should match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block Claude SearchBot User-agent: Claude-SearchBot\/[0-9] Disallow: /
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