What is Kagibot?
The web crawler for the Kagi search engine.
Crawls pages for a classic search index. Blocking it removes you from that search engine.
Kagi lists four crawler IPs on its bot page, with hostnames under kagibot.org. If no rule targets Kagibot but one targets Googlebot, Kagibot follows the Googlebot rules.
Kagibot user agent
Kagi documents this user agent for Kagibot. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)Should you block Kagibot?
Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.
How to block Kagibot in robots.txt
Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site.
A bot follows only the group that names it, so it ignores your User-agent: * rules once it has a group of its own. Repeat any paths you also want kept from it there.
User-agent: Kagibot
Disallow: /How to verify a request is really Kagibot
Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.
Kagi publishes the IP ranges Kagibot crawls from. A request that claims to be Kagibot from any other address is not Kagibot.
See when Kagibot reads your site
Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.
Checked against Kagi’s own documentation on . Something changed? Write to help@invisit.dev.