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Allen Institute for AITraining crawler

AI2Bot

AI2Bot is an Allen Institute for AI crawler used to find web content for open language model datasets.

Training only. It does not decide whether you appear in answers.

Get the robots.txt ruleAllen Institute for AI documentation
Is AI2Bot allowed on your site?2 Allen Institute for AI bots

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
AI2Bot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
How to verify it
Not published
Last checked
11 June 2026

Should you block AI2Bot?

Only if you want your pages kept out of training data. Blocking it keeps your content out of AI2’s crawler path for open model training data.

What blocking each Allen Institute for AI bot does
Allen Institute for AI botJobIf you block it
AI2BotThis pageTrainingBlocking it keeps your content out of AI2’s crawler path for open model training data.
Ai2Bot-DolmaTrainingBlocking it limits AI2 Dolma-related training data collection from your site.
robots.txt
User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

Asks AI2Bot not to crawl any page. Other Allen Institute for AI bots are unaffected. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

AI2Bot collects pages for model training. Training inclusion is not the same as being cited, so measure where AI answers actually cite your site before drawing conclusions from crawl logs.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

User-agentsource
AI2Bot

Version numbers change. Match the highlighted name, not the whole string.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for AI2Bot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

  2. 2

    Check the source

    Allen Institute for AI publishes no IP ranges, reverse DNS or signatures for AI2Bot in the sources here, so it cannot be verified. Treat matches as unconfirmed.

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

How active is AI2Bot?

Measured across the sites connected to Trakkr, 10 August 2026 to 8 November 2026.

13%

of connected sites saw AI2Bot in the four weeks to 8 November 2026. That is 14 of 110.

100%75%50%25%6%
AI2Bot visited between 0% and 8% of connected sites each week from 10 August 2026 to 8 November 2026.

Share of connected sites it visited each week

Rank by reach
25 of 28
Typical site, per week
5 requests
Sites reached, 13 weeks
15 of 138

Most widespread AI crawlers

Share of connected sites each one visited, last four weeks.

  1. 1OAI-SearchBot83%
  2. 2ClaudeBot80%
  3. 3GPTBot66%
  4. 4Amazonbot63%
  5. 5PerplexityBot57%
  6. 6ChatGPT-User56%
  7. 7Bytespider56%
  8. 25AI2Bot13%
All 28 measured crawlers
How this is measured

Finalized daily crawler summaries from sites connected to Trakkr, grouped by the crawler named in each request. Trakkr’s own site is excluded. A site counts as reached in a week when it logged at least one request from AI2Bot. The typical figure is the median weekly requests among the sites it reached.

  • This is a sample of connected sites, not the whole web.
  • A matching user-agent does not prove the named operator sent the request.
  • Requests are not unique pages, training use or citations.
  • Crawlers seen on fewer than 10 sites are not shown. Classic search crawlers such as Googlebot are not collected on every site, so they are left out.

Questions, answered.

AI2Bot is an Allen Institute for AI crawler used to find web content for open language model datasets.

Sources.

Officially documented. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

  1. [1]
    Allen Institute for AI crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 11 June 2026

    allenai.org/crawler

First verified 11 June 2026. Last source check 11 June 2026. Activity measured to 8 November 2026.

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