ExaSearchBot
recommended: observeExaSearchBot is Exa's crawler for discovering and indexing public web pages so users can find, retrieve, and cite their content through Exa.
What it does
ExaSearchBot revisits your site on a flexible schedule, often requesting several pages in a burst. Activity usually increases when your content changes or its index refreshes, with quiet intervals between crawl passes.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
ExaSearchBot
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaSearchBot/1.0; +https://crawler.exa.ai/)robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control ExaSearchBot:
Allow full access
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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