{
 "slug": "ahrefsbot",
 "name": "AhrefsBot",
 "operator": "Ahrefs",
 "operator_slug": "ahrefs",
 "category": "seo",
 "category_label": "SEO and backlink crawlers",
 "robots_token": "AhrefsBot",
 "user_agent_substring": "AhrefsBot",
 "user_agent_example": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)",
 "respects_robots_txt": "documented",
 "respects_robots_txt_label": "obeys robots.txt (documented)",
 "verification_method": "reverse-dns",
 "verification_label": "reverse DNS",
 "published_ip_ranges_url": null,
 "ip_ranges_endpoint": null,
 "ipv4_prefix_count": 0,
 "ipv6_prefix_count": 0,
 "what_it_is": "Ahrefs' backlink crawler, and one of the largest non-search crawlers on the web by request volume.",
 "cost_of_blocking": "No user-facing effect. Ahrefs honours Crawl-delay, so rate-limiting is usually better than blocking.",
 "operator_docs": "https://ahrefs.com/robot",
 "html_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/ahrefsbot.html",
 "json_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/ahrefsbot.json",
 "last_reviewed": "2026-09-01"
}