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xAI-SearchBot
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xAI's live fetcher for Grok. It opens your page as Grok answers, though xAI publishes no IP ranges to confirm it.
When xAI-SearchBot shows up in your logs
Someone asked Grok something and your page was fetched live. With no published IPs, the user agent is the only clue.
User-triggered fetches, when an assistant opens a page to answer a person directly.
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.
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