SBIntuitionsBot
SB Intuitions •
Since 2024
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What is SBIntuitionsBot?
SBIntuitionsBot is the web crawler operated by SB Intuitions, SoftBank's AI research subsidiary. The bot collects web content for training and improving SoftBank's large language models. SB Intuitions focuses on developing Japanese-language AI capabilities and the crawler gathers diverse multilingual content to support these efforts. The bot's robots.txt compliance practices are not well documented.
User Agent String
SBIntuitionsBot
How to Control SBIntuitionsBot
Block Completely
To prevent SBIntuitionsBot from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
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: SBIntuitionsBot
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify SBIntuitionsBot
Verification Method:
Check for requests from SoftBank IP ranges
Check for requests from SoftBank 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 SBIntuitionsBot in your application:
Basic Pattern
/SBIntuitionsBot/iStrict Pattern
/^SBIntuitionsBot$/Flexible Pattern
/SBIntuitionsBot[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/iVendor Match
/.*SB Intuitions.*SBIntuitionsBot/iImplementation Examples
// PHP Detection for SBIntuitionsBot
function detect_sbintuitionsbot() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/SBIntuitionsBot/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('SBIntuitionsBot 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($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for SBIntuitionsBot
import re
from flask import request, make_responsedef detect_sbintuitionsbot():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'SBIntuitionsBot'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False# Django Middleware
class SBIntuitionsBotMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for SBIntuitionsBot
const express = require('express');
const app = express();// Middleware to detect SBIntuitionsBot
function detectSBIntuitionsBot(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /SBIntuitionsBot/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('SBIntuitionsBot detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'SBIntuitionsBot';
}
next();
}app.use(detectSBIntuitionsBot);
# Apache .htaccess rules for SBIntuitionsBot# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SBIntuitionsBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SBIntuitionsBot [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "SBIntuitionsBot" is_bot=1# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /SBIntuitionsBot/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for SBIntuitionsBot# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_sbintuitionsbot {
default 0;
~*SBIntuitionsBot 1;
}server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_sbintuitionsbot) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_sbintuitionsbot) {
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_sbintuitionsbot) {
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: SBIntuitionsBot
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: SBIntuitionsBot
# Blocking AI training bot
Disallow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
SBIntuitionsBotRobots.txt Name
SBIntuitionsBotCategory
aiRespects robots.txt
May not respect
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