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iAsk bots and crawlers
iAsk runs an AI answer engine.
iAsk bots at a glance
- iAsk runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Search Crawlers.
- Each iAsk bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: iask.ai
Every iAsk bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iaskspider | AI Search Crawlers | AI searchReported | No | Consider blocking |
Block or allow all iAsk bots
The rules below name every iAsk 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 iAsk bots
User-agent: iaskspider
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all iAsk bots
User-agent: iaskspider
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all iAsk bots out of private areas only
User-agent: iaskspider
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all iAsk bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(iaskspider)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all iAsk bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (iaskspider) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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