Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Search engines

Kagibot

Verifiable

Kagi's web crawler, fetching pages for the paid Kagi search engine. Kagi publishes a fixed, small set of source IPs rather than a CIDR feed, each paired with a kagibot.org hostname.

Operated by Kagi · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexKagibot/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Kagibot/1.0; +https://kagi.com/bot)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.kagibot.org

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.kagibot.org

Documented static ranges: 216.18.205.234/32, 35.212.27.76/32, 104.254.65.50/32, 209.151.156.194/32

IP ranges (4)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/kagibot.ips and /data/bots/kagibot.json.

104.254.65.50/32
209.151.156.194/32
216.18.205.234/32
35.212.27.76/32

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: Kagibot)

  • 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.