KagiBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Kagi.
Kagi Bot is the web crawler for the Kagi search engine. It crawls the web to build its own search index, which supports its ad-free search product.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
KagiBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether KagiBot follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: Kagibot Disallow: /
User-agent: Kagibot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Kagibot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Kagibot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Kagibot group, KagiBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Kagibot from KagiBot's user agent; check Kagi's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
KagiBot brings search traffic, so keep the real one allowed. Fake KagiBot requests are a common cover for scrapers, so verify it by network rather than by name.
Transfon Security for publishersSearch crawlers fetch landing pages to check them. Keep KagiBot allowed, but out of campaign and conversion data.
Transfon Security for advertisersKagiBot indexes products for search results. Allow it, and block impersonators that use its name to scrape prices.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow KagiBot on marketing and docs pages, and keep it off signed-in app pages it cannot use.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows KagiBot by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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KagiBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Kagi. Kagi Bot is the web crawler for the Kagi search engine. It crawls the web to build its own search index, which supports its ad-free search product.
We have not confirmed whether KagiBot follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: Kagibot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Kagibot/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so KagiBot may not follow it, and anyone can send KagiBot's user agent, so a fake KagiBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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