diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt index 6295e08..51c5e31 100644 --- a/robots.txt +++ b/robots.txt @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: PerplexityBot +User-agent: Scrapy User-agent: Timpibot User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler User-agent: YouBot diff --git a/table-of-bot-metrics.md b/table-of-bot-metrics.md index 02cfca1..71958c2 100644 --- a/table-of-bot-metrics.md +++ b/table-of-bot-metrics.md @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ |omgili | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/) | Data is sold. | No information. | Crawls sites for APIs used by Hootsuite, Sprinklr, NetBase, and other companies. Data also sold for research purposes or LLM training. | |omgilibot | [Webz.io](https://webz.io/) | [Yes](https://web.archive.org/web/20170704003301/http://omgili.com/Crawler.html) | Data is sold. | No information. | Legacy user agent initially used for Omgili search engine. Unknown if still used, `omgili` agent still used by Webz.io. | |PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://www.macstories.net/stories/wired-confirms-perplexity-is-bypassing-efforts-by-websites-to-block-its-web-crawler/) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries. | +|Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." | |Timpibot | [Timpi](https://timpi.io) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. | No information. | Makes data available for training AI models. | |VelenPublicWebCrawler | [Velen Crawler](https://velen.io) | [Yes](https://velen.io) | Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models. | No information. | "Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web." | |YouBot | [You](https://about.you.com/youchat/) | [Yes](https://about.you.com/youbot/) | Scrapes data for search engine and LLMs. | No information. | Retrieves data used for You.com web search engine and LLMs. |