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cohere-ai

Cohere, a training and dataset crawler

Operator
Cohere
Type
Model training and datasets
Sent as a user agent
Not confirmed
Follows robots.txt
Not confirmed
Details
Not yet checked against the operator's own documentation

What it does

Listed by many sites as a Cohere crawler. No official documentation of this token was found.

We have not yet checked this page against Cohere's own documentation. Check it before you rely on it.

Block it in robots.txt

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

To allow it again, remove those lines or use Allow: /. Rules for other bots are not affected.

Block it on your server

robots.txt is a request. To enforce the block, filter the user agent on your server.

Nginx

map $http_user_agent $blocked_bot {
    default 0;
    ~*(cohere-ai) 1;
}
# inside server { }
if ($blocked_bot) { return 403; }

Apache (.htaccess)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} cohere-ai [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

Cloudflare custom rule (action: Block)

(lower(http.user_agent) contains "cohere-ai")

Source

No official documentation link has been confirmed yet.

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