Anthropic

Claude-User

Fetches content in real time on behalf of a user's query when Claude needs to look up information on a specific webpage.

Purpose: Real-time content fetching for user queries

Quick Facts

Company
Anthropic
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Last Updated
2025-05
Official Documentation

📊 Popularity & Traffic

User-initiated fetches for real-time information retrieval.

🤖 User Agent Strings

Use these patterns to identify Claude-User in your server logs or configure your robots.txt file.

Claude-User

Respects robots.txt

Fetches pages on-demand during Claude conversations

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Claude-User/1.0

🌐 IP Ranges

Source: Not published

No specific IP ranges published. Identify this bot using the User Agent strings above.

📝 Robots.txt Configuration

Add the following to your robots.txt file to block Claude-User:

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

💡 Important Notes

  • Blocking reduces your visibility in Claude's responses
  • Separate from ClaudeBot - allows granular control
Beyond blocking crawlers

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