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CCBot — robots.txt guide
Common Crawl open web archive bot used by many AI datasets.
- robots.txt User-agent
- CCBot
- Company
- Common Crawl
- Official documentation
- https://commoncrawl.org/ccbot
How to allow CCBot in robots.txt
Add an explicit allow rule (recommended when you use specific bot blocks elsewhere):
User-agent: CCBot Allow: /
How to block CCBot in robots.txt
Block this crawler from your entire site:
User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /
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