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Kagi bots and crawlers
Kagi runs a paid, ad-free search engine with AI assistant features.
Kagi bots at a glance
- Kagi runs 2 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Assistant Fetchers, Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Kagi bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: kagi.com
Every Kagi bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kagi-fetcher | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI assistantReported | Not documented | Allow |
| Kagibot | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Kagi bots
The rules below name every Kagi 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 Kagi bots
User-agent: kagi-fetcher
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Kagi bots
User-agent: kagi-fetcher
User-agent: Kagibot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Kagi bots out of private areas only
User-agent: kagi-fetcher
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Kagi bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(kagi\-fetcher|Kagibot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Kagi bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (kagi\-fetcher|Kagibot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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