What is SentiBot?
SentiBot is a web crawler operated by SentiOne that indexes user-generated content for the SentiOne Listen platform. The bot analyzes over 300,000 domains daily from various countries to collect publicly available online content for monitoring and analysis purposes. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when SentiBot visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Sentibot |
| Operated By | SentiOne |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Operator-configured crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Possibly |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is SentiBot Visiting My Website?
SentiOne or one of its clients may be gathering competitive intelligence, measuring advertisements, or evaluating content for brand safety. The pages requested reflect the underlying objective.
Should I Block SentiBot?
Confirm SentiBot's purpose before blocking it. Intelligence gatherers may collect competitive research, measure advertisements, or evaluate pages for brand safety. Weigh any benefit against sharing business or page-level data with its operator or clients. For context, 9% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for SentiBot.
How Do I Block SentiBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block SentiBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all intelligence gatherers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: SentiBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/sentibot
Disallow: /Insights for SentiBot
As of October 30, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
SentiBot Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From SentiBot?
SentiBot's traffic pattern depends on the intelligence being collected. It may revisit specific pages on a schedule, crawl broader sections of your site, or appear only when information is requested. Its request scope and frequency reflect the underlying objective.
Does SentiBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
SentiBot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether SentiBot respects it.
Is SentiBot Used for AI Model Training?
Possibly, but its category does not establish that purpose. SentiBot's operator may use or provide the collected content for AI training or for unrelated automated tasks.
Does Blocking SentiBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. SentiBot's expected purpose is not to supply an AI search index or retrieve pages for AI-generated answers.
Does SentiBot Access Private Content?
No special access. SentiBot can read publicly available pages but cannot bypass authentication. Assume anything you publish openly may be collected.
How Can I Verify a Request From SentiBot?
Agent Analytics tracks SentiBot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "SentiBot". Traffic may range from repeated requests to the same pages to broader crawls or one-off fetches. Because SentiBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.