What is YiBot?
YiBot crawls public web content for 01.AI, the company behind the Yi family of foundation models and enterprise AI products. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when YiBot visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YiBot/1.0; +https://01.ai/) |
| Operated By | 01.AI |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Yes |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is YiBot Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria 01.AI set for a training dataset. YiBot typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.
Should I Block YiBot?
Block YiBot if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 8% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for YiBot.
How Do I Block YiBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block YiBot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: YiBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/yibot
Disallow: /Insights for YiBot
As of November 8, 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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From YiBot?
YiBot tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps across many pages. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
Does YiBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
YiBot 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 YiBot respects it.
Is YiBot Used for AI Model Training?
Yes. YiBot collects web content for use in AI training datasets. Blocking it limits future collection but cannot remove content that was collected previously.
Does Blocking YiBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Blocking YiBot limits collection for AI training rather than controlling a live AI search index or citation system.
Does YiBot Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. YiBot primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.
How Can I Verify a Request From YiBot?
Agent Analytics tracks YiBot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "YiBot". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. Because YiBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.