What is CCBot?
Common Crawl · archive · class ai
Builds the open Common Crawl corpus, which many AI labs have trained on. Non-profit; respects robots.txt.
Verdict: Let it in if you value preservation; know where the corpus goes.
Profile
Compiled by Crawler Atlas from the operator's published documentation. Not yet declared by the operator. JSON
| Operator | Common Crawl · commoncrawl.org |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Archives and research. Preservation and open corpora. Non-profit, but their datasets feed AI training downstream. |
| User-agent contains | ccbot |
| robots.txt | User-agent: CCBotDisallow: / |
| How to verify | The operator publishes its address ranges: index.commoncrawl.org. A request that claims this name from an address outside these is an impostor. |
| Should you block it? | Let it in if you value preservation; know where the corpus goes. |
| Does it pay? | No. It does not carry a wallet and cannot answer a 402. A site that charges simply serves it nothing. |
| Docs | https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot |
Observed on the network
Anonymous daily counts from sites running Pay-per-Crawl that opted in, plus the ForgeMesh fleet. Last 7 days. Small sample: 1 sites reporting.
No sightings reported yet. CCBot appears here the day an opted-in site sees it.
Do something about it
- See it in your own logs, verify it, and charge, allow or block it by name with the free Pay-per-Crawl plugin (WordPress, Python, JavaScript, Go, PHP).
- Run this crawler? Publish a crawler-profile.json on your domain and this page shows your declared profile with a verified badge.
- Machine-readable twin: /bots/ccbot/profile.json (free in a browser). Machines: POST
{"slug":"ccbot"}to x402.forgemesh.io/bot-profiles, $0.005 per call over x402.
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