CCBot

AI Training Crawler Common Crawl robots.txt behaviour unknown

Common Crawl web crawler for indexing

User-Agent

CCBot/2.0 (http://commoncrawl.org/faq/)

Allow CCBot in robots.txt

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

Block CCBot in robots.txt

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html

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