What is Anomura?
Anomura is Direqt's web crawler that discovers and indexes links and metadata from websites for inclusion in Direqt's AI search results. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Anomura works like Googlebot with a less predictable calendar. Expect recurring crawls across your whole site, at a frequency that tracks how often your content changes and how much authority your site carries. Visits can cluster in bursts when its index refreshes.
Overview
| Operated By | Direqt |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 7, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 7, 2026, 1% of top websites block Anomura in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Search Crawler Traffic
As of July 7, 2026, 2.7% of all web traffic came from AI search crawlers.
This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Anomura's User Agent
| User Agent | Anomura/1.2 (+https://www.direqt-search.com) |
Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.
How To Block Anomura
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Anomura from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Anomura # https://knownagents.com/agents/anomura
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Anomura?
No, for the same reason you would not block Googlebot. Anomura indexes your site for an AI search engine, and its results link back to you. Blocking it removes you from a whole search channel without helping your traditional rankings. For comparison, 1% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Anomura.
Does Anomura Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Anomura is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Anomura actually honors it.
Does Anomura Access Private Content?
No. Anomura indexes what an anonymous visitor can load, like a traditional search crawler. The bigger risk is content that is public by accident, like a staging site, which it will happily index.
Why Is Anomura Visiting My Website?
Anomura is indexing your site so your pages can appear in its AI search results. It found you through links, your sitemap, or mentions of your domain, and it returns on its own schedule to keep the index fresh.
How Can I Tell if Anomura Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Anomura visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Anomura". Look for recurring visits spread across your site, like a search engine crawl. Keep in mind that Anomura doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.