Exa · Search indexes
ExaSearchBot
Crawler of the Exa search engine, which indexes public pages so people and applications can find, retrieve and cite them. Pages Exa fetches on a user's request go out under a different name, ExaUser.
- robots.txt name
ExaSearchBot- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaSearchBot/1.0; +https://crawler.exa.ai/)- Category
- Search indexes: Crawl the web to build the index of a search engine or AI search.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://crawler.exa.ai/
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: ExaSearchBot
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent, and Exa 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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