Bot Intelligence Record

SemrushBot-OCOB

SemrushBot-OCOB is an AI crawler from Semrush used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

SemrushBot-OCOB
OperatorSemrush
FamilySemrush
Typeai
Riskneutral
Blockdepends
Verified1
Verification Guidance

User-agent strings can be copied. Use this record for identification, logging, filtering, and review. For allow lists or low-friction rules, pair the identifier with operator documentation, reverse DNS, IP ranges, request signatures, or another verification method when available.

Identification

User-Agent: SemrushBot-OCOB

HTTP Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot-OCOB/1; +https://www.semrush.com/bot/)

Robots Token: SemrushBot-OCOB

Purpose: ai-training

Identity: verified-bot

Handling

Common Use: AI crawling, assistant retrieval, AI search, or model-supporting discovery depending on the user-agent.

Detection Notes: Match `SemrushBot-OCOB` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Use bot_http_agent for full user-agent examples when the client sends a longer browser-like string. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.

Risk: neutral

Should Block: depends

Respects Robots: no

Rules

Block Snippet

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB Disallow: /