crawl4ai

ai-crawler crawl4ai

Open-source LLM-friendly web scraping and extraction library

About this crawler

crawl4ai is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern crawl4ai in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block crawl4ai traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.26%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Crawl4AI
2026-05-012026-06-040.38%

Technical details

Name
crawl4ai
Pattern
crawl4ai
Tags
ai-crawler
Reference
https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

crawl4ai-adapter/1.0

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow crawl4ai:

User-agent: crawl4ai Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} crawl4ai [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "crawl4ai") { return 403; }
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