Every AI bot · Anthropic

claude-web

Anthropic's agent that fetches a page when someone asks its AI assistant about it.

In robots.txt: User-agent: claude-web

Named by3.5%of readable robots.txt files on the top 1M (21,076 of 600,979)

Of those, block it65.7%shut it out of the whole site (13,841 of 21,076)

Same sites, since CC-MAIN-2026-34+0.1 ptsshare of the same 394,690 sites that block it by name: 1.5% → 1.6%

Via Cloudflare's file1.7%of its blocks come from Cloudflare's ready-made robots.txt (237 of 13,841)

65.7%

19.3%

15.0%

Block the whole site: 13,841Block some paths: 4,072Name it but allow it: 3,163

Every robots.txt file on the top 1M that names claude-web, by what the rules that apply to it say.

Anthropic's other bots

Sites often treat one company's bots differently, depending on what each is for.

Bot	Purpose	Files naming it	Of those, block it
ClaudeBot	Collects pages to train AI	70,491	71.5%
anthropic-ai	Purpose not documented	28,018	62.2%
Claude-SearchBot	Builds an AI search index	10,987	36.2%
Claude-User	Fetches a page for a chatbot user	9,951	32.9%

Who does what

The highest-ranked sites on the top million in each group. Click one to see its whole robots.txt verdict.

Block it

Block some paths

Name it and allow it

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What this means for you: blocking claude-web asks Anthropic's assistant not to fetch your pages when someone asks about them. Decide each bot on what it's for, not who runs it.