Agent Ready Crawlers

The field guide to every AI crawler and agent at the door, and the vendors who decide who gets in.

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In short

Five datasets, each as CSV and some as JSON: the Crawler Index with 70 rows, the Block Rate Report from a crawl of 13,071 domains, the Verification Ledger with 33 operators, and two slices of the same crawl. Every row carries a source URL and the date read. Edition 2026-11-04.

Crawler Index

70 AI crawlers and agents: operator, user-agent string, robots.txt token, purpose, operator statement, verification, allow and refuse lines, block rate.

Cite this. Agent Ready Crawlers, "Crawler Index", edition 2026-11-04, https://agentreadycrawlers.com/data/.

Block Rate Report

Per-token robots.txt block rates by site list, rank band and Ora category, the 401 and 403 share of home pages and bot-management header prevalence, from 13,071 crawled domains.

Cite this. Agent Ready Crawlers, "Block Rate Report", edition 2026-11-04, https://agentreadycrawlers.com/block-rates/. Crawl of 13,071 rows, read 2026-11-04.

Verification Ledger

33 operators and programmes: IP lists, reverse DNS, Web Bot Auth key directories, Cloudflare status and card-network registries, each with the URL and the date read.

Cite this. Agent Ready Crawlers, "Verification Ledger", edition 2026-11-04, https://agentreadycrawlers.com/verification/.

Names written in robots.txt

The most written user-agent names in the parsed robots.txt files of the crawl, top 10,000 and all crawled, with the share of sites that write each.

Cite this. Agent Ready Crawlers, "Names written in robots.txt", edition 2026-11-04, https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/named-in-robots-txt/.

Training and search policy mix

How parsed robots.txt files combine refusals of the six training tokens and the three AI search tokens, top 10,000 and all crawled.

Cite this. Agent Ready Crawlers, "Training and search policy mix", edition 2026-11-04, https://agentreadycrawlers.com/block-rates/training-and-search/.

Terms of use

The data is free to use with the cite-this line. Operator statements are quoted from the operators' own pages and keep their source URL. See the terms and the corrections log.

Sources

Last reviewed 2026-11-05