About this bot
v0bot is an automated identity associated with Vercel and used for v0 AI-service web retrieval.
Primary identity: v0bot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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v0bot
Details
- Kind
- AI crawler
- Family
- v0
- Purpose
- V0 AI web retrieval
- Common Use
- Web retrieval and page access used by v0 AI services and agent workflows.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the current `v0bot` identity in Vercel/v0 request context. The User-Agent/token is useful for policy matching but is not cryptographic authentication.
- Detection Notes
- Vercel classifies v0bot as an AI crawler for v0 services. The public description does not justify narrowing this identity to model training.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "v0bot" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "v0bot") { set $bot_match 1; }