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