QueritBot

Operator

Querit, a company providing a search API for large language model integration

robots.txt token

QueritBot

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Other bots

What it does

QueritBot is a web crawler operated by Querit, a company providing a search API for large language model integration. This bot indexes web content to power the real-time ...

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

Source: ai.robots.txt.

How to block or allow QueritBot

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: QueritBot
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 QueritBot

When a request's user agent contains QueritBot, 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)