Andi · Search indexes
AndiBot
Search crawler and proxy of Andi, an AI search engine. It crawls the web to build Andi's search results and fetches pages anonymously for its reader and preview modes.
- robots.txt name
AndiBot- User agent
AndiBot- Category
- Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
- Follows robots.txt
- Partly. Andi says it tries to honor robots.txt, but in many cases acts as a browser agent fetching what its users ask for.
- Official documentation
- https://andisearch.com/bot
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: AndiBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: AndiBot
Disallow: /private/This bot does not always follow robots.txt. To keep it out for sure, block it on your server or firewall by user agent and, where published, by IP range.
Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent, and Andi does not publish IP ranges for this bot. A reverse DNS lookup of the IP address may help; check the official documentation.
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