# Cotoyogi

> A crawler run by ROIS-DS, a Japanese inter-university research organisation, collecting Japanese-language text for AI training. It publishes a crawler page in English and Japanese.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | ROIS-DS |
| category | AI training crawlers |
| robots.txt token | `Cotoyogi` |
| user-agent contains | `Cotoyogi` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | no published verification method |
| published IP ranges | none published |
| prefixes mirrored | 0 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://ds.rois.ac.jp/en_center8/en_crawler/ |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Your Japanese-language content is left out of an academic training corpus.

## Full user-agent string

```
Cotoyogi
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Cotoyogi
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/cotoyogi.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt