laion-huggingface-processor
laion-huggingface-processor is blocked by 93 sites in the October 2026 survey, or 1.5% of readable files. Its operator is unclear in the community reference.
Who runs laion-huggingface-processor?
| Fact | laion-huggingface-processor reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Purpose | “AI Data Scrapers” |
| Does laion-huggingface-processor obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for laion-huggingface-processor | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
This entry is classed as a crawler collecting data for AI. An owner who wants search traffic may allow indexing and visits requested by users, yet decline to have the same content gathered for training datasets.
How many sites block it?
Our readable sample has 93 whole-site blocks, 1.5% of 6,171 files, with Disallow: / as the instruction. Of that full sample, 72 name this crawler, or 1.2%. The count without a whole-site block is 6,078.
Among 552 readable files from the top 1,000 sites, we found 18 files naming it, a 3.3% share, with 20 files blocking the whole site. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 3.6%. Outside this group, 5,619 files contribute 73 blocks, or 1.3%.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| laion-huggingface-processor, all ranks | 72 | 1.2% | 93 | 1.5% |
| laion-huggingface-processor, top 1,000 | 18 | 3.3% | 20 | 3.6% |
| laion-huggingface-processor, remaining ranks | 54 | 1.0% | 73 | 1.3% |
This total covers whole-site bans recorded for this name. A blanket User-agent: * rule alone is outside this measure. Of 93 blocks, 23 do not also appear in our count of files naming it. Looking just at named files gives 70 blocks and 2 without a whole-site block. For 6,099 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 laion-huggingface-processor overrides User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
Allow: /It's the 81st most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For laion-huggingface-processor, the survey covered 10,000 top Tranco sites, collected on 19 October 2026. A request timed out after 8 seconds, with files capped at 262,144 bytes. Only available files we could read enter the percentages. Collection and repeat readings used 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 72 files naming it include 2 files without a whole-site ban.
How do the shares compare by rank?
For naming rules, 3.3% of the leading sample mentions it, compared with 1.2% overall. Whole-site blocking is 3.6% at leading ranks and 1.5% across the full sample.
What other entry is close in the index?
TavilyBot is named by 72 files and blocked by 292, or 4.7%. For this crawler, 72 files name it and 93 block it, a 1.5% share.