Bots by company
Kakao bots and crawlers
Kakao runs the Daum portal and search and the KakaoTalk messenger in South Korea.
Kakao bots at a glance
- Kakao runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Kakao bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.kakaocorp.com
Every Kakao bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daum | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Kakao bots
The rules below name every Kakao 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 Kakao bots
User-agent: Daum
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Kakao bots
User-agent: Daum
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Kakao bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Daum
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Kakao bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Daum)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Kakao bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Daum) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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