AI Crawler

An AI crawler is an automated web bot operated by an AI company to collect web content for training or retrieving information for AI models. Major AI crawlers include GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), Google-Extended (Google/DeepMind), PerplexityBot (Perplexity AI), Bytespider (ByteDance/TikTok), and Amazonbot (Amazon). Each crawler has different behaviors, preferences, and crawl patterns that impact how AI models understand and cite website content.