Cotoyogi — What It Is and How to Handle It

Cotoyogi is a research crawler operated by Japan's Research Organization of Information and Systems that collects web content to build AI training datasets for research purposes.

Operator: Cotoyogi | Type: AI Training | Category: AI Crawler

Cotoyogi is classified as an AI crawler. It accesses your content for AI-related purposes. If you want to protect your content from being used without compensation, consider blocking or monetizing access from this crawler with Centinel.

Centinel automatically detects Cotoyogi using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.