cohere-training-data-crawler user agent
Operated by Cohere
cohere-training-data-crawler is a Cohere crawler reported as downloading training data for Cohere's language models.
The cohere-training-data-crawler bot at a glance
- cohere-training-data-crawler is operated by Cohere and collects public web pages that may be used to train AI models.
- The robots.txt token for cohere-training-data-crawler is cohere-training-data-crawler.
- Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings.
- cohere-training-data-crawler robots.txt support: Not documented.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is cohere-training-data-crawler?
The crawler collects public pages for the models behind Cohere’s enterprise AI products.
Cohere has not documented its robots.txt behaviour.
Should you block cohere-training-data-crawler?
Blocking cohere-training-data-crawler is a business decision: it protects your content but can lower how well AI products know your brand.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot. |
| Follows robots.txt | Not documented |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow cohere-training-data-crawler
Put the robots.txt rule in the file at the root of every domain and subdomain, for example https://example.com/robots.txt. The token cohere-training-data-crawler is matched case-insensitively. robots.txt alone may not stop cohere-training-data-crawler, so add the Nginx, Apache or Cloudflare rule as well.
robots.txt: block
# Block cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep cohere-training-data-crawler out of private areas only
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to cohere-training-data-crawler
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(cohere\-training\-data\-crawler)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to cohere-training-data-crawler
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (cohere\-training\-data\-crawler) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "cohere-training-data-crawler")How to verify real cohere-training-data-crawler traffic
Cohere publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for cohere-training-data-crawler, so the user agent cannot be verified. Anyone can send the same string. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
How to find cohere-training-data-crawler in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts cohere-training-data-crawler requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "cohere-training-data-crawler" access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20For a full report per AI bot, upload the log to the AI Log File Analyzer, a free tool by Justin Hà.
cohere-training-data-crawler FAQ
cohere-training-data-crawler uses the robots.txt token "cohere-training-data-crawler". Cohere does not publish a full user-agent string, so match the token inside the User-Agent header.
Cohere has not documented how cohere-training-data-crawler treats robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule and back it with a server rule if the traffic matters to you.
Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. Blocking keeps your future pages out of that company's training data, so its models may know less about your brand over time. It does not remove you from that company's AI search, which uses a separate bot.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Cohere publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for cohere-training-data-crawler, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "cohere-training-data-crawler", for example with: grep -i "cohere-training-data-crawler" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Public bot registry. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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