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Exa bots and crawlers
Exa provides a search engine and API built for AI applications.
Exa bots at a glance
- Exa runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Search Crawlers.
- Each Exa bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: exa.ai
Every Exa bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ExaSearchBot | AI Search Crawlers | AI searchReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Exa bots
The rules below name every Exa token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Exa bots
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Exa bots
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Exa bots out of private areas only
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Exa bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(ExaSearchBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Exa bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (ExaSearchBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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