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VelenPublicWebCrawler

VelenPublicWebCrawler is a Velen crawler for business datasets and machine learning models.

Training only. It does not decide whether you appear in answers.

Get the robots.txt ruleVelen documentation
Is VelenPublicWebCrawler allowed on your site?
  • VelenPublicWebCrawlerTraining
    Not checked

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

robots.txt token
VelenPublicWebCrawler
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
How to verify it
Not published
Seen on
Not measured
Last checked
11 June 2026

Should you block VelenPublicWebCrawler?

Only if you want your pages kept out of training data. Blocking it prevents Velen from collecting your pages into those datasets.

robots.txt
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

Asks VelenPublicWebCrawler 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?

VelenPublicWebCrawler collects pages for model training. Training inclusion is not the same as being cited, so measure where AI answers actually cite your site before drawing conclusions from crawl logs.

Spot it in your logs.

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

User-agentsource
VelenPublicWebCrawler

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

  1. 1

    Match the name

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

  2. 2

    Check the source

    Velen publishes no IP ranges, reverse DNS or signatures for VelenPublicWebCrawler in the sources here, so it cannot be verified. Treat matches as unconfirmed.

Serve the content in HTML

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

Questions, answered.

VelenPublicWebCrawler is a Velen crawler for business datasets and machine learning models.

Sources.

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

  1. [1]
    Velen crawler documentation

    Officially documented · checked 11 June 2026

    velen.io

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

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