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ExaSearchBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

ExaSearchBot is the official web crawler for Exa, an AI-powered search engine that indexes public web content to provide citations and search results. Operated by Exa.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is ExaSearchBot?

ExaSearchBot is the primary crawler for Exa, a search engine designed to integrate web data into AI-driven search experiences. Unlike crawlers focused solely on model training, this agent is built to facilitate discovery and retrieval, ensuring that users can find and navigate to original source content. It operates with a focus on transparency, providing site owners with clear instructions for management and cryptographic verification to prevent spoofing.

Helpful — The bot is transparently documented, respects robots.txt, and provides cryptographic verification methods to ensure authenticity.

Identification

Bot name

ExaSearchBot

Operator

Exa

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls the public web to build and maintain a comprehensive index of URLs, which powers Exa's search and retrieval capabilities. By fetching and processing page content, it enables the search engine to provide accurate, cited answers to user queries. Exa maintains this index to connect users directly to relevant web pages, and it adheres to standard protocols like robots.txt to ensure that site owners retain control over their content's visibility.

Block or allow ExaSearchBot

Block it

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

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