iAskBot
AI search engine crawler indexing web content for question answering
About this crawler
iAskBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern iAskBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine, ai-crawler. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block iAskBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.33%
Technical details
- Name
- iAskBot
- Pattern
iAskBot\/- Tags
- search-engine, ai-crawler
- Reference
- https://datadome.co/bots/iaskspider/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; iAskBot/1.0; +https://iask.ai/) Chrome/120.0.6099.119 Safari/605.1.15
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow iAskBot:
User-agent: iAskBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} iAskBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "iAskBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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