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QuillBot bots and crawlers
QuillBot makes AI writing, paraphrasing and AI detection tools.
QuillBot bots at a glance
- QuillBot runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Assistant Fetchers.
- Each QuillBot bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: quillbot.com
Every QuillBot bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QuillBot | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI assistantProduct featureReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all QuillBot bots
The rules below name every QuillBot 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 QuillBot bots
User-agent: QuillBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all QuillBot bots
User-agent: QuillBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all QuillBot bots out of private areas only
User-agent: QuillBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all QuillBot bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(QuillBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all QuillBot bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (QuillBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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