KeenableBot
Keenable •
Web Crawler
What is KeenableBot?
Keenable says this crawler collects public pages to build and maintain the search index behind its AI-agent search and content-access products. The operator publishes this complete user-agent and a separate Keenable-User token for user-initiated fetches. Its crawler page says it follows robots.txt and page-level noindex directives; it does not yet offer a live cryptographic signature for request verification.
User Agent String
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; KeenableBot/1.0; +https://keenable.ai/bot)
How to Control KeenableBot
Block Completely
To prevent KeenableBot from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block KeenableBot
User-agent: KeenableBot
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: KeenableBot
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: KeenableBot
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify KeenableBot
Verification Method:
Keenable says request signing is not live yet. Its documented route for checking a questionable source IP is to contact [email protected]; the user-agent alone is not proof.
Keenable says request signing is not live yet. Its documented route for checking a questionable source IP is to contact [email protected]; the user-agent alone is not proof.
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 KeenableBot in your application:
Basic Pattern
/KeenableBot/i
Strict Pattern
/^Mozilla\/5\.0 AppleWebKit\/537\.36 \(KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; KeenableBot\/1\.0; \+https\:\/\/keenable\.ai\/bot\)$/
Flexible Pattern
/KeenableBot[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/i
Vendor Match
/.*Keenable.*KeenableBot/i
Implementation Examples
// PHP Detection for KeenableBot
function detect_keenablebot() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/KeenableBot/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('KeenableBot 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($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for KeenableBot
import re
from flask import request, make_response
def detect_keenablebot():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'KeenableBot'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False
# Django Middleware
class keenablebotMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for KeenableBot
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
// Middleware to detect KeenableBot
function detect_keenablebot(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /KeenableBot/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('KeenableBot detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'KeenableBot';
}
next();
}
app.use(detect_keenablebot);
# Apache .htaccess rules for KeenableBot
# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} KeenableBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} KeenableBot [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]
# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "KeenableBot" is_bot=1
# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /KeenableBot/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for KeenableBot
# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_keenablebot {
default 0;
~*KeenableBot 1;
}
server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_keenablebot) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_keenablebot) {
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_keenablebot) {
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 | Allow | Essential for product visibility in search results |
| 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 | Allow | Improves documentation discoverability for developers |
| Corporate Site | Allow | Allow for public pages, block sensitive areas like intranets |
Advanced robots.txt Configurations
E-commerce Site Configuration
User-agent: KeenableBot
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: KeenableBot
# Blocking AI training bot
Disallow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: KeenableBot
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
KeenableBot
Robots.txt Name
KeenableBot
Category
ai, search
Respects robots.txt
Yes
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