# What is VelenPublicWebCrawler? AI crawler guide

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Published: 2026-06-11
Last updated: 2026-06-11

Learn what VelenPublicWebCrawler is, who operates it, its verified user-agent, robots.txt posture, and how blocking it can affect AI search, citations, training, or agent visibility.

Velen crawler for business datasets and machine learning models.

## What is VelenPublicWebCrawler?

VelenPublicWebCrawler is a web crawler operated by Velen. It collects publicly accessible web pages to build business datasets and train machine learning models. The crawler identifies itself with the user-agent token VelenPublicWebCrawler and respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol. Its activity is focused on gathering data that supports Velen's dataset and model development efforts.

## What it's for

If you allow this crawler, Velen may include your site's content in its business datasets and machine learning models. This could mean your public information becomes part of commercial data products or training corpora. Blocking it prevents Velen from collecting your pages for those purposes.

## How to handle VelenPublicWebCrawler

To prevent VelenPublicWebCrawler from accessing your site, add a disallow rule for its user-agent token in your robots.txt file. The crawler honors robots.txt directives, so a simple disallow will stop it from crawling your content.

## robots.txt rule

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

## Blocking cost

Blocking this crawler may prevent your site's content from appearing in Velen's business datasets or being used to train its machine learning models.

## Examples

- A business news site allows the crawler, and its articles may be included in Velen's industry-specific datasets.
- An e-commerce product page is crawled, and its structured data could be used to improve product categorization models.
- A public research paper is collected and may become part of a training corpus for academic or commercial language models.

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- ICC-Crawler: Also tracked as a training crawler.
- Ai2Bot-Dolma: Also tracked as a training crawler.
- GPTBot: Also tracked as a training crawler.
- AI Training Opt-Out: VelenPublicWebCrawler is a training crawler tied to this policy decision.
- Robots.txt: Robots.txt is the control file used to allow or block VelenPublicWebCrawler.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Does VelenPublicWebCrawler obey robots.txt?

Yes, VelenPublicWebCrawler honors the Robots Exclusion Protocol. It will respect any disallow rules you set for its user-agent token in your robots.txt file.

### What kind of data does VelenPublicWebCrawler collect?

It collects publicly accessible web pages to build business datasets and train machine learning models. The exact nature of the datasets depends on Velen's projects.

### How can I block VelenPublicWebCrawler?

Add a User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler line followed by Disallow: / in your robots.txt file. The crawler will then stop visiting your site.

### Will blocking VelenPublicWebCrawler affect my site's visibility in other services?

Blocking this crawler only affects Velen's ability to include your content in its datasets and models. It does not impact your site's ranking or visibility in search engines or other unrelated services.

### Is VelenPublicWebCrawler associated with any other crawlers?

Based on available information, VelenPublicWebCrawler is a standalone crawler operated by Velen. There are no known related bots.

## Data And Sources

- [Velen documentation](https://velen.io) - Primary source for VelenPublicWebCrawler crawler details.