Verified Bots Directory

Directory / AI assistants

ExaUser

Fully verifiable

Exa's user-triggered fetcher, which retrieves a page live when a person, or an application built on the Exa API, asks for its current content. Exa documents it as separate from ExaSearchBot: it does not crawl automatically, it does no scheduled or background fetching, and it is not used to decide whether content appears in Exa search. Requests are signed with Web Bot Auth.

Operated by Exa · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexExaUser/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; ExaUser/1.0; +https://crawler.exa.ai/exauser)

How to verify

Fetch the Web Bot Auth key directory

curl -s https://crawler.exa.ai/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Does not honor robots.txt

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.