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ShapBot
AI Training Crawler Unknown / community maintained robots.txt behaviour unknown
Parallel's AI agent web context provider
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ShapBot/0.1.0 Allow ShapBot in robots.txt
User-agent: ShapBot
Allow: / Block ShapBot in robots.txt
User-agent: ShapBot
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: https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/crawler
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