Phind
PhindBot
The crawler for Phind, an AI-powered search engine for developers that solves technical questions with direct answers and code.
Purpose: Search indexing and technical AI answers
📊 Popularity & Traffic
Highly active on programming documentation and developer Q&A sites.
🤖 User Agent Strings
Use these patterns to identify PhindBot in your server logs or configure your robots.txt file.
PhindBot
Respects robots.txtDeveloper-focused AI assistant bot
PhindBot🌐 IP Ranges
Source: Typically visits from United States cloud nodes
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 PhindBot:
User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /💡 Important Notes
- Combines real-time web search with specialized tech-focused LLMs
- Well-behaved crawler with a very low opt-out/block rate among top sites
- Designed to help developers find code and API references faster
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