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What is Claude-SearchBot?

Anthropic's crawler for search in Claude. It follows robots.txt and has its own token, separate from ClaudeBot.

robots.txt token
Claude-SearchBot
Operator
Anthropic
Purpose
Search
Obeys robots.txt
Yes The operator says it follows robots.txt.
Documented by operator
Yes, on the operator's own pages.
Published IP list
claude.com/crawling/bots.json
Documentation
support.claude.com

Block Claude-SearchBot from your whole site

robots.txt
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

Allow it, but keep private paths out

robots.txt
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

Other bots from Anthropic

Add it to a robots.txt in the generator →

Sources

  1. support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-ca

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