CCBot is a web crawler associated with Common Crawl, a non-profit organization that provides an open repository of web crawl data. This bot systematically browses the internet to collect data for building a comprehensive archive of web pages. The data gathered by CCBot is used for various purposes, including research, data analysis, and machine learning projects. CCBot identifies itself through its user-agent string, which typically includes “CCBot” in the name. Unlike malicious bots, CCBot’s activities are generally benign and aimed at contributing to the open data ecosystem.
CCBot
What is CCBot?
Why is CCBot crawling my site?
CCBot crawls websites to gather data for Common Crawl’s open web archive. The main reasons include:
1. Data Collection: To build a comprehensive dataset of web pages for research and analysis.
2. Open Access: To provide freely accessible web data for developers, researchers, and organizations.
3. Machine Learning: To support AI and machine learning projects that require large datasets for training and testing.
4. Web Analysis: To enable studies on web trends, link structures, and content distribution.
These activities help in creating a valuable resource for the tech community but may impact server performance.
Threat research insights on CCBot
All data in this section are produced by DataDome's Galileo Threat Research team from our proprietary detection network and reviewed by human analysts.
Verified Bot
A verified bot has high identification strength
Verified
Robots.txt Compliance
Whether this bot respects robots.txt directives
Respected
Identification Strength
How confidently DataDome can identify this bot
High
Traffic origins
Top 15 countries by bot traffic
US
100.0%
Most used autonomous system (AS)
Top 5 by traffic share
Amazon.com, Inc.
100.0%
Traffic Occupancy
0.01%
On average, occupy 0.01% of the traffic from bots in the directory
Authorization Rate
0%
Businesses decide to authorize this bot 0% of the time
How to detect and authenticate CCBot?
1. Robots.txt File: Add a rule in your `robots.txt` file to disallow CCBot from crawling your site. Use the following lines:
User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /
This instructs CCBot to avoid crawling any part of your website.
2. IP Blocking: Identify the IP addresses used by CCBot and block them at your server or firewall level. This method requires regular updates as IP addresses may change.
3. User-Agent Filtering: Configure your web server to deny requests from user agents that match “CCBot.” This can be done using server configurations like `.htaccess` for Apache or equivalent settings in Nginx.
4. Rate Limiting: Implement rate limiting on your server to restrict the number of requests from CCBot, reducing its impact on your resources without completely blocking it.
5. CAPTCHA Implementation: Use CAPTCHAs to challenge automated requests, though this may not be effective against all bots and could affect legitimate users.
6. Web Application Firewall (WAF): Deploy a WAF to detect and block unwanted bot traffic, including CCBot, based on predefined rules and patterns.
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