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coccocbot-web

coccocbot-web is the search index crawler run by Coc Coc: indexes pages for the Coc Coc search engine in Vietnam. Its operator publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for it, so a request carrying this name cannot be verified. Treat the name in a log line as a claim.

User-agent tokencoccocbot-web
OperatorCoc Coc
What it doesindexes pages for the Coc Coc search engine in Vietnam
Kindsearch index crawler
Can a request be verified?No — user agent string only
In a CrawlCheck scanRead from robots.txt; a refusal is scored

Allow or block it in robots.txt

User-agent: coccocbot-web
Disallow: /
User-agent: coccocbot-web
Allow: /

Add a group that names it: "User-agent: coccocbot-web" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names coccocbot-web, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.

What blocking it changes

Indirectly. It feeds indexes pages for the Coc Coc search engine in Vietnam. A refusal removes pages from that index, and most AI answer surfaces still draw on search indexes.

See what coccocbot-web and every other named agent receive from your own site: run a free scan. The full catalogue is on AI crawlers and as JSON at /ai-crawlers.json.

Questions about coccocbot-web

QHow do I block coccocbot-web in robots.txt?
Add a group that names it: "User-agent: coccocbot-web" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names coccocbot-web, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.
QHow can I tell if a request from coccocbot-web is real?
Its operator publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for it, so a request carrying this name cannot be verified. Treat the name in a log line as a claim.
QDoes blocking coccocbot-web affect whether my site appears in AI answers?
Indirectly. It feeds indexes pages for the Coc Coc search engine in Vietnam. A refusal removes pages from that index, and most AI answer surfaces still draw on search indexes.
QDoes CrawlCheck test my site as coccocbot-web?
Not as a request. CrawlCheck reads the rules your robots.txt sets for coccocbot-web and reports them. A refusal of it counts toward the grade, because it costs the site visibility.