Kagibot
Privacy-focused search engine crawler indexing content for rankings
About this crawler
Kagibot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Kagibot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Kagibot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Kagibot
- Pattern
Kagibot\/- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://kagi.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- rDNS suffixes
.kagi.com,.kagibot.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Kagibot 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.
.kagi.com.kagibot.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Kagibot:
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Kagibot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Kagibot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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