omgilibot user agent
Operated by Webz.io
omgilibot is a Webz.io crawler that collects web data sold to other companies, including for AI training.
The omgilibot bot at a glance
- omgilibot is operated by Webz.io and collects public web pages that may be used to train AI models.
- The robots.txt token for omgilibot is omgilibot.
- Blocking an AI training crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings.
- omgilibot robots.txt support: Yes.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is omgilibot?
omgilibot began as the crawler of the Omgili search engine and now belongs to Webz.io, which sells structured web data feeds.
Data sold by Webz.io can end up in third-party AI training sets.
Should you block omgilibot?
Blocking omgilibot 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 | Yes |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow omgilibot
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 omgilibot is matched case-insensitively.
robots.txt: block
# Block omgilibot
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow omgilibot
User-agent: omgilibot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep omgilibot out of private areas only
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to omgilibot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(omgilibot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to omgilibot
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (omgilibot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "omgilibot")How to verify real omgilibot traffic
Webz.io publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for omgilibot, 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 omgilibot in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts omgilibot requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "omgilibot" 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.
omgilibot FAQ
omgilibot uses the robots.txt token "omgilibot". Webz.io does not publish a full user-agent string, so match the token inside the User-Agent header.
Yes. Webz.io states that omgilibot follows robots.txt rules written for the "omgilibot" token.
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: omgilibot" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Webz.io publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for omgilibot, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "omgilibot", for example with: grep -i "omgilibot" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Webz.io crawler documentation. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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