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CCBot

CCBot is the crawler for Common Crawl, a non-profit foundation providing open web copy archives. Common Crawl datasets are used by virtually every major open-source AI project, university, and AI research lab worldwide.

Audit Your Site for CCBot

Technical Specifications

User-Agent TokenCCBot
Operator / OwnerCommon Crawl
Primary PurposePublic open crawl archives for AI research
SEO ImpactNo SEO Impact
Respects robots.txtStandard Compliant (RFC 9309)
Reverse DNS Hostnamecommoncrawl.org
Official DocumentationOperator Docs

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I block Common Crawl?

User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /

How to Allow CCBotrobots.txt

Ensure this bot can index your public pages for citations.

# Allow CCBot
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
How to Block CCBotrobots.txt

Prevent this bot from accessing any content on your domain.

# Block CCBot
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

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