Merge pull request #67 from Nightfirecat/semrushbot

Block SemrushBot

robots.txt

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ User-agent: PanguBot
 User-agent: PerplexityBot
 User-agent: PetalBot
 User-agent: Scrapy
+User-agent: SemrushBot
 User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
 User-agent: Timpibot
 User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler

table-of-bot-metrics.md

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 | PerplexityBot | [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/) | [No](https://www.macstories.net/stories/wired-confirms-perplexity-is-bypassing-efforts-by-websites-to-block-its-web-crawler/) | Used to answer queries at the request of users. | Takes action based on user prompts. | Operated by Perplexity to obtain results in response to user queries. |
 | PetalBot | [Huawei](https://huawei.com/) | Yes | Used to provide recommendations in Hauwei assistant and AI search services. | No explicit frequency provided. | Operated by Huawei to provide search and AI assistant services. |
 | Scrapy | [Zyte](https://www.zyte.com) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | "AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets." |
+| SemrushBot | [Semrush](https://www.semrush.com/) | [Yes](https://www.semrush.com/bot/) | Scrapes data for use in LLM article-writing tool. | Roughly once every 10 seconds. | SemrushBot is a bot which, among other functions, scrapes data for use in ContentShake AI tool reports. |
 | Sidetrade indexer bot | [Sidetrade](https://www.sidetrade.com) | Unclear at this time. | Extracts data for a variety of uses including training AI. | No information. | AI product training. |
 | Timpibot | [Timpi](https://timpi.io) | Unclear at this time. | Scrapes data for use in training LLMs. | No information. | Makes data available for training AI models. |
 | VelenPublicWebCrawler | [Velen Crawler](https://velen.io) | [Yes](https://velen.io) | Scrapes data for business data sets and machine learning models. | No information. | "Our goal with this crawler is to build business datasets and machine learning models to better understand the web." |