AI Agents & Web Crawlers Directory
Every bot, crawler, and AI agent we track — with user-agent strings, detection data, and management guides. Powered by proprietary data from the Switch network.
49
Agents tracked
7
Categories
237
Sessions detected
5,592
Total events
🔍Search Engines(8)
View allApplebot
Search EnginesApple
Apple's search crawler powering Siri, Spotlight, and Safari Suggestions.
Baiduspider
Search EnginesBaidu
Baidu's web crawler serving the dominant search engine in China.
Bingbot
Search EnginesMicrosoft
Microsoft Bing's search crawler, also powering Copilot AI answers.
Claude-SearchBot
Search EnginesAnthropic
Anthropic's search indexing crawler for Claude's search features.
DuckDuckBot
Search EnginesDuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo's web crawler for the privacy-focused search engine.
Googlebot
Search EnginesGoogle's primary web crawler powering the world's largest search engine.
OAI-SearchBot
Search EnginesOpenAI
OpenAI's search indexing crawler for ChatGPT Search features.
YandexBot
Search EnginesYandex
Yandex's web crawler for the leading search engine in Russia and CIS.
🤖AI Assistants(11)
View allAndiBot
AI AssistantsAndi
Andi Search's AI-powered crawler providing direct conversational answers.
ChatGPT-User
AI AssistantsOpenAI
OpenAI's real-time browsing agent when ChatGPT users request live web content.
Claude-User
AI AssistantsAnthropic
Anthropic's real-time web agent for when Claude users browse live content.
Copilot
AI AssistantsMicrosoft
Microsoft Copilot's browsing agent for AI-assisted answers.
DuckAssistBot
AI AssistantsDuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo's AI assistant crawler for generating instant answers.
Gemini
AI AssistantsGoogle's AI assistant crawlers including Safety and Cloud Vertex bots.
Gemini-Deep-Research
AI AssistantsGoogle Gemini's Deep Research agent that performs comprehensive multi-page research.
MistralAI-User
AI AssistantsMistral
Mistral's real-time citation fetcher for the Le Chat AI assistant.
Perplexity-User
AI AssistantsPerplexity
Perplexity's real-time browsing agent for live content retrieval.
PerplexityBot
AI AssistantsPerplexity
Perplexity AI's search crawler indexing content for its answer engine.
YouBot
AI AssistantsYou.com
You.com's AI search engine crawler.
🏢Commercial Crawlers(14)
View allAI2Bot
Commercial CrawlersAllen AI
Allen Institute for AI's research crawler for academic AI development.
Amazonbot
Commercial CrawlersAmazon
Amazon's web crawler powering Alexa, Amazon search, and AI services.
Applebot-Extended
Commercial CrawlersApple
Apple's AI training token controlling how Applebot data is used for Apple Intelligence.
Bytespider
Commercial CrawlersByteDance
ByteDance's web crawler for TikTok AI and LLM training data.
CCBot
Commercial CrawlersCommon Crawl
Common Crawl's open-source web archive used by multiple AI companies for training.
ClaudeBot
Commercial CrawlersAnthropic
Anthropic's web crawler collecting training data for Claude models.
cohere-ai
Commercial CrawlersCohere
Cohere's web crawler for enterprise AI and language model training.
DeepSeekBot
Commercial CrawlersDeepSeek
DeepSeek's web crawler for their open-source large language models.
Diffbot
Commercial CrawlersDiffbot
Diffbot's AI-powered web scraping and knowledge graph crawler.
Google-Extended
Commercial CrawlersGoogle's AI training token controlling use of Googlebot-crawled content for AI.
GPTBot
Commercial CrawlersOpenAI
OpenAI's training data crawler for GPT models including ChatGPT and GPT-4.
ICC-Crawler
Commercial CrawlersNICT
Japan's NICT research crawler for AI and multilingual data collection.
Meta-WebIndexer
Commercial CrawlersMeta
Meta's web indexer for improving Meta AI search and knowledge.
webzio
Commercial CrawlersWebz.io
Webz.io's data extraction crawler used by AI companies for training data.
🌐Browser Agents(5)
View allClaude Computer Use
Browser AgentsAnthropic
Anthropic's Claude agent that controls a real browser to complete tasks.
OpenAI Operator
Browser AgentsOpenAI
OpenAI's browser agent that autonomously performs web tasks for users.
Playwright
Browser AgentsMicrosoft
Microsoft's browser automation framework for testing and scraping.
Puppeteer
Browser AgentsGoogle's headless Chrome automation library commonly used for scraping.
Selenium
Browser AgentsSeleniumHQ
The original browser automation framework used for testing and scraping.
📊SEO Scrapers(5)
View allAhrefsBot
SEO ScrapersAhrefs
Ahrefs' SEO crawler building the world's largest backlink database.
DataForSeoBot
SEO ScrapersDataForSEO
DataForSEO's crawler powering SEO data APIs for agencies and tools.
DotBot
SEO ScrapersMoz
Moz's SEO crawler building their Link Explorer and keyword databases.
MJ12bot
SEO ScrapersMajestic
Majestic's SEO crawler building the largest commercial link index.
SemrushBot
SEO ScrapersSemrush
Semrush's SEO crawler for competitive analysis and backlink tracking.
📡Monitoring(4)
View allAdsBot-Google
MonitoringGoogle's ad quality crawler checking landing pages for Google Ads compliance.
Pingdom
MonitoringSolarWinds
SolarWinds' enterprise website monitoring and performance tracking service.
StatusCake
MonitoringStatusCake
Website monitoring service tracking uptime and page speed globally.
UptimeRobot
MonitoringUptimeRobot
Popular free uptime monitoring service checking site availability.
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💬Social Crawlers(2)
View allMeta Crawler
Social CrawlersMeta
Meta's suite of crawlers for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp link previews.
TikTok
Social CrawlersByteDance
ByteDance's crawler for TikTok link previews and embed generation.