Cohere-Ai
Cohere •
Since 2022
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What is Cohere-Ai?
Cohere-AI is the web crawler operated by Cohere, a leading AI company specializing in large language models for enterprise use. The bot collects training data to improve Cohere's natural language processing models, which power various enterprise AI applications. Cohere focuses on providing accessible, customizable AI models for businesses, and their crawler helps ensure these models understand diverse content and use cases. As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, Cohere's crawler plays a vital role in building models that can understand and generate human-like text for business applications.
User Agent String
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Cohere-AI/1.0; +https://cohere.com/)
How to Control Cohere-Ai
Block Completely
To prevent Cohere-Ai from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block Cohere-Ai
User-agent: Cohere-Ai
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: Cohere-Ai
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: Cohere-Ai
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify Cohere-Ai
Verification Method:
Verify with Cohere's published information
Verify with Cohere's published information
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 Cohere-Ai in your application:
Basic Pattern
/Cohere\-Ai/i
Strict Pattern
/^Mozilla/5\.0 \(compatible; Cohere\-AI/1\.0; \+https\://cohere\.com/\)$/
Flexible Pattern
/Cohere\-Ai[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/i
Vendor Match
/.*Cohere.*Cohere\-Ai/i
Implementation Examples
// PHP Detection for Cohere-Ai
function detect_cohere_ai() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/Cohere\\-Ai/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('Cohere-Ai 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($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for Cohere-Ai
import re
from flask import request, make_response
def detect_cohere_ai():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'Cohere-Ai'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False
# Django Middleware
class CohereAiMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for Cohere-Ai
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
// Middleware to detect Cohere-Ai
function detectCohereAi(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /Cohere-Ai/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('Cohere-Ai detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'Cohere-Ai';
}
next();
}
app.use(detectCohereAi);
# Apache .htaccess rules for Cohere-Ai
# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Cohere\-Ai [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Cohere\-Ai [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]
# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Cohere\-Ai" is_bot=1
# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /Cohere\-Ai/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for Cohere-Ai
# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_cohere_ai {
default 0;
~*Cohere\-Ai 1;
}
server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_cohere_ai) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_cohere_ai) {
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_cohere_ai) {
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: Cohere-Ai
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: Cohere-Ai
# Blocking AI training bot
Disallow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: Cohere-Ai
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
Cohere-Ai
Robots.txt Name
Cohere-Ai
Category
ai
Respects robots.txt
Yes
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