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Zhipu AI bots and crawlers
Zhipu AI builds the GLM language models and the ChatGLM assistant in China.
Zhipu AI bots at a glance
- Zhipu AI runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Training Crawlers.
- Each Zhipu AI bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.zhipuai.cn
Every Zhipu AI bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGLM-Spider | AI Training Crawlers | AI trainingReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Zhipu AI bots
The rules below name every Zhipu AI 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 Zhipu AI bots
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Zhipu AI bots
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Zhipu AI bots out of private areas only
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Zhipu AI bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(ChatGLM\-Spider)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Zhipu AI bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (ChatGLM\-Spider) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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