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Kagibot

Kagibot is a Kagi search crawler that indexes pages for its search index and the answers built on it.

Needed to be found and cited in Kagi.

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Is Kagibot allowed on your site?
  • KagibotSearch
    Not checked

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
Kagibot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
Seen on
Not measured
Last checked
11 August 2026

Should you block Kagibot?

Not if you want to be found in Kagi. Blocking it can remove your pages from Kagi search results and its assistant answers.

robots.txt
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /

Asks Kagibot not to crawl any page. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

User-agentsource
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)

Version numbers change. Match the highlighted name, not the whole string.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for Kagibot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

  2. 2

    Check the published IPs and reverse DNS

    Kagi publishes its source IPs and its crawler resolves under kagibot.org. kagi.com/bot

Is this really Kagibot?

Addresses and reverse DNS

Paste an address that claims to be Kagibot. It is checked against Kagi’s published list and its reverse DNS. Nothing is stored.

Check any crawler’s address

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

The token is Kagibot. Rules written for KagiBot with a capital B will not match.

Questions, answered.

Kagibot is a Kagi search crawler that indexes pages for its search index and the answers built on it.

Sources.

Officially documented. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

  1. [1]
    Kagi crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 11 August 2026

    kagi.com/bot

First verified 11 August 2026. Last source check 11 August 2026.

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