Variant

bot-category

Categories of detected bots.

variant bot-category {
  none,
  suspected,
  accessibility,
  ai-crawler,
  ai-fetcher,
  content-fetcher,
  monitoring-site-tools,
  online-marketing,
  page-preview,
  platform-integrations,
  research,
  search-engine-crawler,
  search-engine-optimization,
  security-tools,
  extra(extra-bot-category),
}

Cases

CasePayloadDescription
none—

No bot was detected.

suspected—

A suspected bot.

accessibility—

Tools that make content accessible (e.g., screen readers).

ai-crawler—

Crawlers used for training AIs and LLMs, generally used for building AI models or indexes.

ai-fetcher—

Fetchers used by AIs and LLMs for enriching results in response to a user query.

content-fetcher—

Tools that extract content from websites to be used elsewhere.

monitoring-site-tools—

Tools that access your website to monitor things like performance, uptime, and proving domain control.

online-marketing—

Crawlers from online marketing platforms (e.g., Facebook, Pinterest).

page-preview—

Tools that access your website to show a preview of the page in other online services and social media platforms.

platform-integrations—

Integration with other platforms by accessing the website's API, notably Webhooks.

research—

Commercial and academic tools that collect and analyze data for research purposes.

search-engine-crawler—

Crawlers that index your website for search engines.

search-engine-optimization—

Tools that support search engine optimization tasks (e.g., link analysis, ranking).

security-tools—

Security analysis tools that inspect your website for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other security features.

extraextra-bot-category

Additional bot kinds may be added in the future via this resource type.

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