Does AI2Bot respect robots.txt?

Yes. The operator documents that AI2Bot reads robots.txt and follows Disallow rules for its own token. Rules take effect on the next fetch of the file, which can be hours or days after you publish them.

How do I block AI2Bot?

Add these user-agent tokens (AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma) to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.

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AI2Bot

Q: How do I verify a request really came from AI2Bot?

You cannot, at least not from the request itself. Ai2 documents the crawler and an opt-out but publishes no address list. Its output feeds the open OLMo and Dolma datasets, so a block here removes the site from public research corpora as well as from a model. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.

AI2Bot is a bot operated by Ai2 that collects pages used to train AI models. Explores 'certain domains' to find web content. It is documented as honouring robots.txt, but no IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine.

Also seen as Ai2Bot-Dolma. Rules need to cover every token.

AI2Bot at a glance

Reference data for the AI2Bot crawler
User agent	`AI2Bot` Token only. The operator has not published a full user-agent string, so match on the substring rather than an exact header.
Operator	Ai2
Purpose	Content is used to train open language models.
Respects robots.txt	Yes, documented
Verification method	None published, user agent only Ai2 documents the crawler and an opt-out but publishes no address list. Its output feeds the open OLMo and Dolma datasets, so a block here removes the site from public research corpora as well as from a model. https://allenai.org/crawler
Crawl pattern	Not published
Robots.txt tokens	`AI2BotAi2Bot-Dolma`
Operator documentation	https://allenai.org/crawler

Explores 'certain domains' to find web content.

robots.txt

Allow or block AI2Bot

Paste one of these into the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Rules are per token, so a block on one crawler leaves every other bot untouched.

Block AI2Bot

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

Blocks every path for this crawler only.

Allow AI2Bot

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Allow: /

Explicit allow. Useful when a wildcard rule above it would otherwise catch this crawler.

Allow, except the pages you never want quoted

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /search

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own account, checkout and search URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking AI2Bot keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.

Block every crawler in the directory at once

Verification

Is that really AI2Bot?

A user-agent header is a string the client chooses. Scrapers copy AI2Bot precisely because site owners allow it. Ai2 documents the crawler and an opt-out but publishes no address list. Its output feeds the open OLMo and Dolma datasets, so a block here removes the site from public research corpora as well as from a model.

Paste the IP address from your access log below. You will see whether it belongs to a hosting provider, a residential proxy pool or a Tor exit, plus the ASN that announces it, which is what tells you whether the claim holds up.

Datacenter IP detectionNearly every real AI crawler egresses from cloud ranges. A residential IP claiming to be one is the first thing to check.IP reputation checkSee whether the address behind a fake crawler hit has a history of abuse elsewhere.Residential proxy detectionScrapers that get blocked by user agent often come back through residential proxy pools.

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Identify crawlers automatically instead of by hand

Agentscan checks a request against published crawler ranges, reverse DNS and hosting data, then returns a verdict your edge can act on. One call per request, no range files to keep up to date.

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