Brightbot 1.0

Operator

https://brightdata.com/brightbot

robots.txt token

Brightbot 1.0

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Other bots

What it does

Scrapes data to train LLMs and AI products focused on website customer support, [uses residential IPs and legit-looking user-agents to disguise itself](https://ksol.io/en/blog/posts/brightbot-not-that-bright/).

ai.robots.txt describes its function as: LLM/AI training.

Source: ai.robots.txt.

Crawl frequency, per ai.robots.txt: At least one per minute.

How to block or allow Brightbot 1.0

Add a group for its token to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To keep it out of the whole site:

User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
Disallow: /

To let it crawl everything, use an empty Disallow: or Allow: / instead. WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt that many SEO plugins let you edit. A real robots.txt file uploaded to the site root takes its place.

robots.txt is a request, so it only works on crawlers that honour it. A bot that ignores it has to be blocked at the server or firewall, by user agent or IP address.

How Vireo counts Brightbot 1.0

When a request's user agent contains Brightbot 1.0, Vireo keeps it out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Other bots, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over the bot's name.

Sources

• ai.robots.txt (MIT)