About this bot
ExaBot is associated with Exa and used for historical exa fetching.
The primary claimed User-Agent token is ExaBot.
Directory status: Legacy. Identity classification: Unverified with Medium confidence. Identity type: observed.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed.
Historical Exa-associated fetch identity retained separately from the current ExaSearchBot crawler.
How to identify this bot
- Also known as
- ExaBot
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Exa
- Purpose
- Historical exa fetching
- Common Use
- Historical Exa-associated fetch identity retained separately from the current ExaSearchBot crawler.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `ExaBot` as historical; current Exa crawling is represented by the separate ExaSearchBot record.
- Detection Notes
- Treat `ExaBot` as historical; current Exa crawling is represented by the separate ExaSearchBot record.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed; apply access policy at the request or network layer when needed.- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "ExaBot" [NC]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ExaBot") { return 403; }