About this bot
DesearchBot is a crawler associated with Desearch and used for ai search indexing.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is DesearchBot. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DesearchBot/1.0; +https://www.desearch.ai/crawler).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: http message signature.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under DesearchBot.
Risk classification: Neutral. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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DesearchBotMozilla/5.0 (compatible; DesearchBot/1.0; +https://www.desearch.ai/crawler)
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Desearch
- Purpose
- AI search indexing
- Common Use
- indexing public pages for search and retrieval by people and AI agents
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- HTTP message signature
- Evidence Method
- Validate the signed request identity when available and use the User-Agent token for discovery. Do not treat the User-Agent string alone as authentication.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `DesearchBot` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: DesearchBot Disallow: /