---
title: ElamurBot — the crawler of Elamur Search
description: ElamurBot is the web crawler of Elamur, a search engine in development. How it crawls, how to allow or block it, and how to contact us.
canonical: https://bot.elamur.ai/free/en/
---

# ElamurBot

The web crawler of [Elamur](https://elamur.ai/) — a search engine in development.

## What it is

Elamur is building a general web search engine at [elamur.ai](https://elamur.ai/). ElamurBot visits publicly available web pages so that they can be found in our search results and in our open catalog of websites. The search engine is not public yet; the crawler is collecting and ranking pages for it now.

ElamurBot identifies itself with this User-Agent:

```
ElamurBot/1.0 (+https://bot.elamur.ai/)
```

## How it crawls

- It reads and follows `robots.txt` (RFC 9309). Its product token is `ElamurBot`.
- It honours `Crawl-delay`. Small sites are visited slowly, with several seconds between requests; the pace adapts and backs off on errors, slow responses, HTTP 429 and 503.
- It sends at most about one request per second to any single IP address.
- It only fetches pages with plain HTTP(S) `GET`: no forms, no logins, no `POST`.
- If your `robots.txt` closes your site to several other search crawlers by name, ElamurBot treats the site as closed too, even if it is not named.

## How to block or allow it

To keep ElamurBot away from your whole site, add this to `robots.txt`:

```
User-agent: ElamurBot
Disallow: /
```

To invite it explicitly, even if you limit other crawlers:

```
User-agent: ElamurBot
Allow: /
```

Changes are picked up within a day. If you prefer, write to us and we will exclude your domains by hand.

## Where it crawls from

```
144.76.221.20
2a01:4f8:200:9429::2
178.162.229.202
2a00:c98:2050:a05f:4::112
```

## Contact

Questions, complaints or requests to stop crawling: ai [at] elamur [dot] ai. We answer every message.