PhindBot
PhindBot is blocked by 76 sites in the October 2026 survey, or 1.2% of readable files. The community reference lists its operator as phind.
Who runs PhindBot?
| Fact | PhindBot reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “phind” |
| Purpose | “AI Assistants” |
| Does PhindBot obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “No explicit frequency provided.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for PhindBot | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“Phind is an AI-powered answer engine designed for developers, offering technical answers and code examples. It uses real-time web search and specialized AI models to prov…”
The stated role here is an AI assistant. An owner may permit an assistant to read a page for someone and deny bulk collection that would use it as training material.
How many sites block it?
A User-agent line names it in 96 files, 1.6% of 6,171 readable files. Whole-site bans, written Disallow: /, total 76, or 1.2%. That leaves 6,095 without a recorded ban.
Among 552 readable files from the top 1,000 sites, we found 22 files naming it, a 4.0% 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 56 blocks, or 1.0%.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhindBot, all ranks | 96 | 1.6% | 76 | 1.2% |
| PhindBot, top 1,000 | 22 | 4.0% | 20 | 3.6% |
| PhindBot, remaining ranks | 74 | 1.3% | 56 | 1.0% |
Only whole-site blocks recorded against this crawler’s name count here. Rules addressed to every crawler are outside this count. Of 76 blocks, 1 does not also appear in our count of files naming it. The overlap between naming and blocking is 75 files. Naming without a whole-site ban accounts for 21, and 6,075 files never name it. 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 PhindBot overrides User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: PhindBot
Allow: /It's the 63rd most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For PhindBot, our 19 October 2026 collection used Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. Files had an 8-second timeout and a 262,144-byte limit. Missing, unreachable and oversized files do not contribute to these shares. Reading files again used scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff) as well. See the full survey method.
Common questions
What does naming this crawler tell me?
The 96 files that mention its name do not all record a whole-site ban. Those without one total 21.
Are leading sites different?
Leading files record 4.0% with the name and 3.6% blocking it. Across all readable files, the corresponding shares are 1.6% and 1.2%.
How does the nearby crawler compare?
For comparison, Amzn-User has 94 files naming it and 76 blocks, or 1.2%. Our counts for this entry are 96 files with the name and 76 blocking the whole site, or 1.2%.