AbackAuditBot

Aback Audit is a website auditing service. The crawler identifies itself with this user agent:

AbackAuditBot/2.0 (+https://abackaudit.com/bot)

What it does

How to opt out

Add the following to your robots.txt:

User-agent: AbackAuditBot
Disallow: /

The service refuses to audit a site that asks it to stop. The request is rejected before any page is read.

AI crawlers

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ClaudeBottrainingAnthropicCollects public web content for Anthropic model training.
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BytespidertrainingByteDanceCollects public web content for ByteDance models.
Google-ExtendedtrainingGoogleRobots.txt control token that opts a site out of Gemini training.
Applebot-ExtendedtrainingAppleRobots.txt control token that opts a site out of Apple Intelligence training.
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Claude-SearchBotsearchAnthropicIndexes pages so Claude can cite them.
PerplexityBotsearchPerplexityIndexes pages for Perplexity search results.
ChatGPT-UseruserOpenAIFetches a page when a person asks ChatGPT about it.
Claude-UseruserAnthropicFetches a page when a person asks Claude about it.
Perplexity-UseruserPerplexityFetches a page when a person asks Perplexity about it.