BrightBot

Operator

Bright Interactive Ltd

Type

Crawler

Official page

brightbot.app

robots.txt token

Brightbot

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Other bots

What it does

Brightbot is a web data collection crawler by Bright Data that extracts and structures public website content at scale, providing AI-ready data for model training, RAG pi...

ai.robots.txt describes its function as: AI Data Providers

Source: ai.robots.txt.

User agent

Requests from BrightBot carry a user agent like this:

Brightbot 1.0

Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):

Brightbot

Anyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.

How to block or allow BrightBot

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
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

Vireo keeps requests from BrightBot 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 BrightBot's user agents.

Sources

• BrightBot information page (brightbot.app)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)
• ai.robots.txt (MIT)