AI bots in your logs — what they are, who runs them, and what to do about them
A technical SEO reference for the 24 crawlers that matter: exact user-agent strings, official IP sources, robots.txt behaviour, and which hits are signals that your URL was just cited inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini.
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What you can do with this data
Whether you want to block AI training, appear in AI search results, or just understand your traffic — this reference helps.
Spot mentions in chatbots
Live-fetch user-agents (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User) hitting a URL are a strong signal that page was just cited in a live conversation.
Configure robots.txt
Block training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot) without losing citation visibility from search-index bots like OAI-SearchBot.
Firewall & WAF rules
Cross-reference official IP lists or ASN ranges to whitelist verified bots and block UA-spoofing scrapers at the edge.
Clean up your analytics
Strip AI crawler traffic from your reports using the exact UA patterns and IP sources documented for each bot.
See what AI is saying about your brand
Managing bot crawlers is just one piece. With Aiso, you can see the actual conversations happening about your brand inside ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI platforms.