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SemrushBotSwa

Name: SemrushBotSwa
Author: Semrush

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Data collected by SEMrushBot is used for the SEO Writing Assistant tool to check if URL is accessible Operated by Semrush.

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GoodBot

Assessment

AI Crawler

What is SemrushBotSwa?

SemrushBotSwa is a web crawler operated by Semrush. Data collected by SEMrushBot is used for the SEO Writing Assistant tool to check if URL is accessible 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

SemrushBotSwa

Operator

Semrush

Why it crawls your site

SemrushBotSwa crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Semrush 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 SemrushBotSwa

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for SemrushBot-SWA/ 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 SemrushBotSwa from crawling your entire site
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA/
Disallow: /

# Allow SemrushBotSwa full access
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA/
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows SemrushBot-SWA/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Semrush's documentation.