Echobot Bot
Few readable files block Echobot Bot in October 2026, at 0 sites or 0.0%. The community reference lists its operator as Echobox.
Who runs Echobot Bot?
| Fact | Echobot Bot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Echobox” |
| Purpose | “AI Data Scrapers” |
| Does Echobot Bot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for Echobot Bot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“Echobot Bot is an AI data scraper operated by Echobox. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related.”
This entry is classed as a crawler collecting data for AI. 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?
We have 6,171 readable files for this entry, 62 of them naming it, a 1.0% share. Whole-site blocks written Disallow: / total 0. That puts the count without a recorded ban at 6,171.
Its name appears in 19 files near the top, compared with 43 farther down. The shares are 3.4% of 552 readable files in the top 1,000, and 0.8% of 5,619 in remaining ranks. Both samples have no recorded whole-site blocks.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Echobot Bot, all ranks | 62 | 1.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Echobot Bot, top 1,000 | 19 | 3.4% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Echobot Bot, remaining ranks | 43 | 0.8% | 0 | 0.0% |
Here, the total counts whole-site blocks recorded for this crawler. It leaves out general User-agent: * instructions. Looking just at named files gives 0 blocks and 62 without a whole-site block. For 6,109 readable files, we found no mention by name. We ignore capitalization and repeated names.
How to block or allow it
Place the group in your root robots.txt file. Per the robots.txt standard, a named group for Echobot Bot overrides User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: Echobot Bot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: Echobot Bot
Allow: /It's the 99th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
Which other crawlers does this operator run?
How we counted
For Echobot Bot, our 19 October 2026 collection used Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. Each file had 8 seconds to arrive, up to 262,144 bytes. Shares exclude unreachable, unavailable and oversized files. Repeat readings are included, using scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Does a User-agent line mean it is blocked?
A name identifies the crawler addressed by a group. The survey found 62 files with that name and no recorded whole-site ban, out of 62.
What do the top-ranked sites show?
Within readable robots.txt files near the top of the ranking, 3.4% name it and 0.0% block it. Overall, naming reaches 1.0% and blocking 0.0%.
Which nearby entry can I compare?
The nearby QuillBot entry reports 62 files that name it and 62 whole-site blocks, 1.0% of readable files. Here, 62 files mention the name and 0 block access, or 0.0%.