ChatGLM-Spider
Zhipu AI •
Since 2023
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What is ChatGLM-Spider?
ChatGLM-Spider is the web crawler operated by Zhipu AI, a leading Chinese AI company, to collect training data for their ChatGLM series of large language models. The crawler gathers publicly available web content to improve the capabilities of ChatGLM models, which are widely used in Chinese-language AI applications. The bot's compliance with robots.txt is not well documented, and website owners should monitor their logs for this user agent if they wish to control access.
User Agent String
ChatGLM-Spider
How to Control ChatGLM-Spider
Block Completely
To prevent ChatGLM-Spider from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /public/
Set Crawl Delay
To slow down the crawl rate (note: not all bots respect this directive):
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify ChatGLM-Spider
Verification Method:
Check for requests from Zhipu AI IP ranges
Check for requests from Zhipu AI IP ranges
Learn more in the official documentation.
⚠️ AI Training Notice
This bot may collect and use your website content for AI model training. Consider whether you want your content used for this purpose before allowing access.
This bot may collect and use your website content for AI model training. Consider whether you want your content used for this purpose before allowing access.
Detection Patterns
Multiple ways to detect ChatGLM-Spider in your application:
Basic Pattern
/ChatGLM\-Spider/iStrict Pattern
/^ChatGLM\-Spider$/Flexible Pattern
/ChatGLM\-Spider[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/iVendor Match
/.*Zhipu AI.*ChatGLM\-Spider/iImplementation Examples
// PHP Detection for ChatGLM-Spider
function detect_chatglm_spider() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/ChatGLM\\-Spider/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('ChatGLM-Spider detected from IP: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
// Set cache headers
header('Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600');
header('X-Robots-Tag: noarchive');
// Optional: Serve cached version
if (file_exists('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html')) {
readfile('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for ChatGLM-Spider
import re
from flask import request, make_responsedef detect_chatglm_spider():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'ChatGLM-Spider'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False# Django Middleware
class ChatGLMSpiderMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for ChatGLM-Spider
const express = require('express');
const app = express();// Middleware to detect ChatGLM-Spider
function detectChatGLMSpider(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /ChatGLM-Spider/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('ChatGLM-Spider detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'ChatGLM-Spider';
}
next();
}app.use(detectChatGLMSpider);
# Apache .htaccess rules for ChatGLM-Spider# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ChatGLM\-Spider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ChatGLM\-Spider [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "ChatGLM\-Spider" is_bot=1# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /ChatGLM\-Spider/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for ChatGLM-Spider# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_chatglm_spider {
default 0;
~*ChatGLM\-Spider 1;
}server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_chatglm_spider) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_chatglm_spider) {
root /var/www/cached;
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/index.html @backend;
}
try_files $uri @backend;
}
# Add headers for bot requests
location @backend {
if ($is_chatglm_spider) {
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noarchive";
}
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}
Should You Block This Bot?
Recommendations based on your website type:
| Site Type | Recommendation | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | Limit Access | Protect pricing and inventory data from AI training |
| Blog/News | Consider Blocking | Your content may be used for AI training without compensation |
| SaaS Application | Block | No benefit for application interfaces; preserve resources |
| Documentation | Selective | Allow for public docs, block for internal docs |
| Corporate Site | Limit | Allow for public pages, block sensitive areas like intranets |
Advanced robots.txt Configurations
E-commerce Site Configuration
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&page=
Allow: /products/
Allow: /categories/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
Publishing/Blog Configuration
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
# Blocking AI training bot
Disallow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
ChatGLM-SpiderRobots.txt Name
ChatGLM-SpiderCategory
aiRespects robots.txt
May not respect
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