BuddyBot
BuddyBot has 43 recorded blocks in October 2026, or 0.7%, and 35 files naming it. The community reference lists its operator as BuddyBotLearning.
Who runs BuddyBot?
| Fact | BuddyBot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “BuddyBotLearning” |
| Purpose | “AI Learning Companion” |
| Does BuddyBot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for BuddyBot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“BuddyBot is a voice-controlled AI learning companion targeted at childhooded STEM education.”
This entry’s stated use is quoted above. An owner may allow a search crawler to list a page or an assistant to retrieve it for someone, yet decline to supply the text for training.
How many sites block it?
Instructions to stay out of the whole site appear in 43 files, or 0.7% of 6,171 readable files. We counted 35 with its name in a User-agent line, a 0.6% share. Another 6,128 lack a recorded Disallow: / ban.
For the top 1,000 ranks, its name appears in 15 files out of 552, or 2.7%. Whole-site blocks total 17. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 3.1%. Lower in the ranking, blocking reaches 26 files out of 5,619, a 0.5% share.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BuddyBot, all ranks | 35 | 0.6% | 43 | 0.7% |
| BuddyBot, top 1,000 | 15 | 2.7% | 17 | 3.1% |
| BuddyBot, remaining ranks | 20 | 0.4% | 26 | 0.5% |
This total covers whole-site bans recorded for this name. A blanket User-agent: * rule alone is outside this measure. Of 43 blocks, 8 do not also appear in our count of files naming it. Among files listing the crawler, 35 record a ban on all paths. The number not naming it is 6,136. For naming, repeats and different case are merged.
How to block or allow it
These lines go in robots.txt at the root. User-agent: * yields to a group naming BuddyBot under the robots.txt standard.
Block the whole site
User-agent: BuddyBot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: BuddyBot
Allow: /It's the 134th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For BuddyBot, on 19 October 2026, we requested robots.txt from Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. An 8-second wait or a file over 262,144 bytes ended a read. 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
What does naming this crawler tell me?
A ban accompanies each appearance of the name across 35 files.
Are leading sites different?
For naming rules, 2.7% of the leading sample mentions it, compared with 0.6% overall. Whole-site blocking is 3.1% at leading ranks and 0.7% across the full sample.
How does the nearby crawler compare?
For comparison, Awario has 32 files naming it and 26 blocks, or 0.4%. Our counts for this entry are 35 files with the name and 43 blocking the whole site, or 0.7%.