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Claude-SearchBot

Name: Claude-SearchBot
Author: Anthropic

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Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for Claude users. Operated by Anthropic.

Operator website ↗

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Assessment

AI Search

What is Claude-SearchBot?

Claude-SearchBot is a web crawler operated by Anthropic. Claude-SearchBot navigates the web to improve search result quality for Claude users.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Claude-SearchBot

Operator

Anthropic

Why it crawls your site

Claude-SearchBot crawls websites to index and analyze web content for AI-powered search results. It is operated by Anthropic as part of their AI-powered search infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Claude-SearchBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Claude-SearchBot 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 Claude-SearchBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

# Allow Claude-SearchBot full access
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Claude-SearchBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Anthropic's documentation.