Kangaroo Bot
Few readable files block Kangaroo Bot in October 2026, at 0 sites or 0.0%. Its operator is unclear in the community reference.
Who runs Kangaroo Bot?
| Fact | Kangaroo Bot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Purpose | “AI Data Scrapers” |
| Does Kangaroo Bot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for Kangaroo Bot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“Kangaroo Bot is used by the company Kangaroo LLM to download data to train AI models tailored to Australian language and culture.”
This entry is classed as a crawler collecting data for AI. Keeping a site available to readers may include allowing search and requested fetches. An owner may still keep the text out of training collections.
How many sites block it?
A User-agent line mentions it in 172 of 6,171 files, or 2.8%. The whole-site Disallow: / block count is 0. All 6,171 files are therefore without a ban in this measure.
For leading ranks, naming still appears in 32 files, 5.8% of 552 readable files from Tranco’s top 1,000. The remaining 140 naming files come from 5,619 readable lower-ranked files, a 2.5% share. Neither rank group contributes any recorded blocks.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kangaroo Bot, all ranks | 172 | 2.8% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Kangaroo Bot, top 1,000 | 32 | 5.8% | 0 | 0.0% |
| Kangaroo Bot, remaining ranks | 140 | 2.5% | 0 | 0.0% |
Blocking here counts whole-site bans recorded for it by name. A general ban for all crawlers is excluded. The overlap between naming and blocking is 0 files. Naming without a whole-site ban accounts for 172, and 5,999 files never name it. We ignore capitalization and repeated names.
How to block or allow it
Add these lines to robots.txt at your site root. For Kangaroo Bot, the robots.txt standard gives a named group priority over User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Allow: /It's the 46th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For Kangaroo Bot, the survey covered 10,000 top Tranco sites, collected on 19 October 2026. 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
What does naming this crawler tell me?
The 172 files naming it include 172 files without a whole-site ban.
Are leading sites different?
For naming rules, 5.8% of the leading sample mentions it, compared with 2.8% overall. Whole-site blocking is 0.0% at leading ranks and 0.0% across the full sample.
How does the nearby crawler compare?
Brightbot is named by 167 files and blocked by 86, or 1.4%. For this crawler, 172 files name it and 0 block it, a 0.0% share.