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Agent Identification API

Identify AI agents and other bots from incoming network requests, from your own code.

// Response

{
  "agent_token": "Claude-User",
  "agent_type_name": "AI Assistant",
  "operator_name": "Anthropic",
  "result": "verified"
}

Build agent-aware features into your own product

The Agent Identification API tells you exactly which agent is behind every request, and proves it isn't spoofed.

What can you build?

Content Licensing

Grant verified agents access to licensed articles, archives, and datasets

Monetization

Enforce paywalls, charge for access, and meter verified agent usage

Abuse Prevention

Detect spoofed agents and challenge suspicious automated traffic

Data Enrichment

Supplement your logs with agent name, category, and operator

We keep track of 2,000+ agents, so you don't have to

Leave the collection, categorization, and maintenance to us, so you can focus on what makes your product unique.

AI Agent

Uses an actual web browser to autonomously complete complex tasks on behalf of a human user

AI Assistant

Fetches website content in response to a user prompt, to include in an AI-generated answer

AI Coding Agent

Fetches documentation and other resources to help build software

AI Data Provider

Crawls websites to supply structured content to AI systems as a third-party service

AI Data Scraper

Downloads website content to include in datasets used for training AI models such as LLMs

AI Search Crawler

Indexes website content to possibly include as citations in AI-powered search results

Archiver

Captures and stores historical website snapshots for long-term digital preservation

Automated Agent

Automates browser interactions programmatically without direct human supervision

Developer Helper

Assists with testing, debugging, and ensuring website functionality

Fetcher

Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds

Intelligence Gatherer

Analyzes web content for brand safety, competitive insights, and ad targeting

Scraper

Extracts large amounts of web data, often without explicit website permission

Search Engine Crawler

Systematically scans and indexes web pages to include in search results

Security Scanner

Scans websites for security vulnerabilities, threats, and configuration weaknesses

SEO Crawler

Analyzes website structure and content to identify SEO improvement opportunities

Uncategorized

Not yet assigned a type

Undocumented AI Agent

Crawls websites without disclosing its purpose, collecting data for an unknown AI use case

const agent = await knownAgents.identify(request)

if (agent.status == "verified") { // Not spoofed
    console.log(agent.name) // e.g. Claude-User
    console.log(agent.type) // e.g. AI Assistant
}

Simple to Integrate

Get a result with one low-latency call.

Verification, Handled