What is iAskBot?
iAskBot is an undocumented AI agent operated by iAsk. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Nobody outside iAsk knows how iAskBot is supposed to behave. There is no documentation covering its crawl rate, targeting, or purpose, and undocumented agents sometimes turn out to be experiments or leftovers that were never switched off. Whatever pattern shows up in Agent Analytics is the only reliable description of it.
Overview
| Operated By | iAsk |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 7, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 7, 2026, 2% of top websites block iAskBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall Undocumented AI Agent Traffic
As of July 7, 2026, 0.0% of all web traffic came from undocumented AI agents.
Top Visited Website Categories
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.
iAskBot's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; iAskBot/1.0; +https://iask.ai/) Chrome/124.0.6367.171 Safari/605.1.15 |
Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.
How To Block iAskBot
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block iAskBot from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: iAskBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/iaskbot
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block iAskBot?
Be skeptical. iAsk has not documented what iAskBot collects or why, so you cannot weigh any benefit against the cost. Assume collected content can end up in AI training data, and block it if its traffic gets heavy. Blocking it will not change your search rankings. For comparison, 2% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for iAskBot.
Does iAskBot Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. iAskBot 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 iAskBot actually honors it.
Does iAskBot Access Private Content?
Unknown. Without documentation there is no stated boundary and no way to hold the operator to one. Assume iAskBot reads anything publicly reachable, and verify that your sensitive areas actually require authentication.
Why Is iAskBot Visiting My Website?
There is no documented answer. The realistic possibilities are training data collection, index building, or an experiment iAsk has not announced. iAskBot's request pattern on your site is the best clue you will get.
How Can I Tell if iAskBot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks iAskBot 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 "iAskBot". Watch both its volume and its targets, since neither is documented. Keep in mind that iAskBot 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.