kagi
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedThe official crawler for Kagi Search, a privacy-focused, subscription-based search engine that indexes the web to provide high-quality, ad-free results. Operated by Kagi Inc..
What is kagi?
KagiBot is the dedicated web crawler operated by Kagi Inc. to power their independent search engine. Unlike traditional ad-supported search engines, Kagi uses this crawler to build a clean, high-quality index that prioritizes user privacy and relevance over commercial interests. It is designed to be respectful of server resources and adheres to standard web crawling protocols.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
Kagi crawls the web to maintain an up-to-date index of pages, allowing their search engine to deliver accurate and timely results to subscribers. By crawling directly, Kagi reduces reliance on third-party search APIs, ensuring they can provide a unique, non-biased search experience. Site owners can verify the bot by checking that the source IP originates from Kagi's known infrastructure and by reviewing the bot's adherence to their site's robots.txt directives.
IP ranges
Requests from kagi originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow kagi
Add a Disallow rule for kagi in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block kagi from crawling your entire site User-agent: kagi Disallow: / # Allow kagi full access User-agent: kagi Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows kagi. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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