training crawlers

CCBot

Operated by Common Crawl · Training crawlers

Common Crawl crawler that builds open web crawl datasets.

When CCBot shows up in your logs

Common Crawl is archiving your page into its open web dataset, used by many model builders.

Crawlers that collect public content that may be used to train or ground models.

Allow or block it in robots.txt

A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.

allow
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow:
block
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

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