Exa · Indexing

ExaSearchBot

Identify ExaSearchBot by its user agent. Check request identity, review robots.txt controls and track visits in Aiola Analytics.

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Key facts

User-agent token: ExaSearchBot
Indexing: Crawled for AI or search indexing.
No IP verification is published for ExaSearchBot; treat the token as a claim.

What ExaSearchBot is

ExaSearchBot indexes pages for Exa search; its User-Agent also includes the ExaSearchBot-Images variant. No IP list is published. Requests are signed; keys are at https://crawler.exa.ai/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory. Aiola does not verify those signatures.

In Aiola's taxonomy, Indexing means crawled for ai or search indexing.

ExaSearchBot user agent

Look for the match token inside the complete HTTP User-Agent header. Tokens can be spoofed, so use the network checks below for authentication.

Full example User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaSearchBot/1.0; +https://crawler.exa.ai/)
Case-insensitive match token
ExaSearchBot

Official IP ranges

Exa has not published official IP ranges that Aiola successfully fetched for ExaSearchBot. Aiola does not list cloud-provider ranges or community guesses as if they authenticated this crawler.

Verify a ExaSearchBot request

No IP authentication method is documented in this record for ExaSearchBot. Its user-agent token is a claim, not proof of identity.

Use the exact header token for classification and apply your own access controls. Check the vendor documentation for any newly published IP, token or header verification method.

Control ExaSearchBot with robots.txt

Exa documents crawler controls for this bot family. Robots.txt can direct cooperative crawling, but it cannot prove that a request is authentic.

Allow ExaSearchBot
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Allow: /
Block ExaSearchBot
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Disallow: /

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Aiola Analytics

See every ExaSearchBot visit on your site

Aiola tracks 80 AI, search and link-preview crawlers next to your human traffic, revenue and errors. See when ExaSearchBot arrives, which pages it requests and which requests fail. Then ask a coding agent in the same app to fix those pages. Track ExaSearchBot visits with AI crawler analytics.

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