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CitibotSiteCrawler

Name: CitibotSiteCrawler
Author: Citibot

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CitibotSiteCrawler collects public data from government websites to power Citibot’s AI civic engagement tools. Operated by Citibot.

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Assessment

AI Crawler

What is CitibotSiteCrawler?

CitibotSiteCrawler is a web crawler operated by Citibot. CitibotSiteCrawler collects public data from government websites to power Citibot’s AI civic engagement tools. It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

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

Identification

Bot name

CitibotSiteCrawler

Operator

Citibot

Why it crawls your site

CitibotSiteCrawler crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Citibot as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow CitibotSiteCrawler

Block it

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

# Allow CitibotSiteCrawler full access
User-agent: CitibotSiteCrawler
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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