CCBot — What It Is and How to Handle It

CCBot crawls the web for Common Crawl, a nonprofit that provides free web archives used to train many AI models including GPT and Claude.

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

CCBot 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 CCBot 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.