helpers : isAIBot()

isAIBot(ua: string): boolean

Check whether user-agent is an AI crawler (an AI bot that browses websites by itself to collect data).

Operator	User-Agent
AI2	AI2Bot
Amazon	Amazonbot
Anthropic	anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-Web
Apple	Applebot, Applebot-Extended
Brave	Bravebot
ByteDance	Bytespider, TikTokSpider
Cohere	cohere-training-data-crawler
Common Crawl	CCBot
Coveo	Coveobot
DataForSEO	DataForSeoBot
DeepSeek	DeepSeekBot
Diffbot	Diffbot
Google	Google-Extended, GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video, Google-CloudVertexBot
Hive AI	ImagesiftBot
Huawei	PanguBot, PetalBot
Hugging Face	HuggingFace-Bot
Kangaroo	Kangaroo Bot
Mendable.ai	FirecrawlAgent
Meta	FacebookBot, meta-externalagent
OpenAI	GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot
Perplexity	PerplexityBot
Replicate	Replicate-Bot
RunPod	RunPod-Bot
SB Intuitions	SBIntuitionsBot
SEMrush	SemrushBot-OCOB
Timpi	Timpibot
Together AI	Together-Bot
Hunter.io	VelenPublicWebCrawler
Vercel	v0bot
Webz.io	omgili, omgilibot, Webzio-Extended
xAI	xAI-Bot
You.com	YouBot
Zhipu AI	ChatGLM-Spider

TIP

See list of all possible values for Crawler (including non-AI crawlers) here.

Code Example

example.js

import { isAIBot } from 'ua-parser-js/helpers';

const ahref = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)';
const firefox = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0';
const searchGPT = 'Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/searchbot';

console.log(isAIBot(ahref)); // false
console.log(isAIBot(firefox)); // false
console.log(isAIBot(searchGPT)); // true

example-server.js

import { isAIBot } from 'ua-parser-js/helpers';

console.log(isAIBot(req.headers['user-agent']));

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References

• The rise of the AI crawler 🡥 —Vercel