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