About this bot
SemrushBot-ESI is a crawler associated with Semrush and used for enterprise site intelligence.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is SemrushBot-ESI.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under SemrushBot-ESI.
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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SemrushBot-ESI
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Semrush
- Purpose
- Enterprise site intelligence
- Common Use
- Semrush Enterprise Site Intelligence crawling
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `SemrushBot-ESI` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with independent network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `SemrushBot-ESI` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: SemrushBot-ESI Disallow: /