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Claudebot (Anthropic) and "RandomBot"

New bots for me

         

SumGuy

11:56 am on May 26, 2025 (gmt 0)

5+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Seeing hits from these yesterday - I don't think they're related.

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)

216.73.216.0/24

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; RandomBot/1.0; +http://randombot.com/robot)

34.89.35.228 (228.35.89.34.bc.googleusercontent.com)

Claudebot did ask for robots.txt, Randombot did a HEAD then GET to my site's landing page (didn't ask for robots).

I'm blocking many 34.x/16 IP's already, now blocking 34.89.0.0/16.

Anthropic was in the news recently:

"Anthropic's Latest AI Model Threatened Engineers With Blackmail To Avoid Shutdown - Claude Opus 4, like prior models, showed a “strong preference” to first resort to ethical means for its continued existence..."

I'm not blocking it, nor OpenAI (from which I see periodic hits). There is an image-bot (don't recall the name) that I am blocking.

not2easy

5:05 pm on May 26, 2025 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



AFAIK, the current version for ClaudeBot is Claude 3.5 that came out last fall: [webmasterworld.com...]
so that is not likely in the hands of someone you might want.

I haven't met RandomBot...yet.