Andibot
Andi AI search chatbot and answer engine
About this crawler
Andibot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Andibot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-fetcher. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Andibot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.46%
Technical details
- Name
- Andibot
- Pattern
Andibot- Tags
- ai-fetcher
- Reference
- https://andi.com/
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- rDNS suffixes
.andiai.com,.andisearch.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Andibot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.andiai.com.andisearch.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Andibot/1.0)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Andibot:
User-agent: Andibot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Andibot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Andibot") {
return 403;
}
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