Andibot
Andibot is listed as a search crawler, and the community reference lists its operator as Andi. In October 2026, 54 sites block it, a 0.9% share of readable files.
Who runs Andibot?
| Fact | Andibot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Andi” |
| Purpose | “Search engine using generative AI, AI Search Assistant” |
| Does Andibot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time” |
| Frequency | “No information provided.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for Andibot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“Scrapes website and provides AI summary.”
The listed use here is search. Helping people find a page through search is a different use from using its contents to train a model, so owners may allow those visits separately.
How many sites block it?
A User-agent line names it in 70 files, 1.1% of 6,171 readable files. Whole-site bans, written Disallow: /, total 54, or 0.9%. That leaves 6,117 without a recorded ban.
Tranco’s top 1,000 sites yielded 552 readable files, including 20 files with its name, or 3.6%, and 18 files blocking it. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 3.3%. Outside those ranks, 36 of 5,619 files block it, or 0.6%.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andibot, all ranks | 70 | 1.1% | 54 | 0.9% |
| Andibot, top 1,000 | 20 | 3.6% | 18 | 3.3% |
| Andibot, remaining ranks | 50 | 0.9% | 36 | 0.6% |
Only whole-site blocks recorded against this crawler’s name count here. Rules addressed to every crawler are outside this count. Of 54 blocks, 1 does not also appear in our count of files naming it. Looking just at named files gives 53 blocks and 17 without a whole-site block. For 6,101 readable files, we found no mention by name. We ignore capitalization and repeated names.
How to block or allow it
Use your site’s root file, robots.txt. Specific groups for Andibot take precedence over User-agent: *, according to the robots.txt standard.
Block the whole site
User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: Andibot
Allow: /It's the 85th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For Andibot, our 19 October 2026 collection used Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. Each file had 8 seconds to arrive, up to 262,144 bytes. Only available files we could read enter the percentages. Parsing includes files read again, through scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Can a file name it and still allow it?
The 70 files that mention its name do not all record a whole-site ban. Those without one total 17.
How do the shares compare by rank?
Leading files record 3.6% with the name and 3.3% blocking it. Across all readable files, the corresponding shares are 1.1% and 0.9%.
What other entry is close in the index?
The nearby MistralAI-Training entry reports 70 files that name it and 86 whole-site blocks, 1.4% of readable files. Here, 70 files mention the name and 54 block access, or 0.9%.