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CitibotSiteCrawler

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Operated by Citibot ai crawler

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

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • CitibotSiteCrawler

robots.txt

Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control CitibotSiteCrawler:

Allow full access

User-agent: CitibotSiteCrawler
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: CitibotSiteCrawler
Disallow: /

Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless — see how →

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