MyCentralAIScraperBot
Operated by MyCentral AI
Quick Facts
- User-Agent:
- MyCentralAIScraperBot
- Category:
- AI & LLM Bots
- Operator:
- MyCentral AI
- Safety:
- Safe
- Blocking Impact:
- Low - No SEO ranking impact
- SEO Impact Score:
- 2/10
- Official docs:
- None published by MyCentral AI
Reported, not operator documented
MyCentral AI has not published a crawler page that names MyCentralAIScraperBot. It is listed here on our own evidence. Verified by AI Crawler Check: 52 of the 5,583 valid robots.txt files in the Tranco top 10,000 carry a rule for MyCentralAIScraperBot, so site owners treat it as a real crawler name (how we measure this). That proves the spelling is in use, not who sends it. Reported token; operator unknown.
What that means for you: the MyCentralAIScraperBot rule on this page is the best available spelling, but MyCentral AI has made no statement of purpose, crawl rate or robots.txt compliance. Treat a MyCentralAIScraperBot request in your logs as a clue, not proof of who sent it, and add a firewall rule if that traffic matters to you. If the operator publishes documentation, this profile moves to Official docs.
What is MyCentralAIScraperBot?
MyCentralAIScraperBot is an AI data-collection crawler operated by MyCentral AI. It gathers public web content to build or refine training datasets for large language models. Like other AI training crawlers, MyCentralAIScraperBot does not influence your search-engine rankings, so you can block it via robots.txt without any SEO penalty if you wish to opt out of AI training.
MyCentralAIScraperBot is an AI data-collection crawler operated by MyCentral AI. It gathers public web content to build or refine training datasets for large language models. Like other AI training crawlers, MyCentralAIScraperBot does not influence your search-engine rankings, so you can block it via robots.txt without any SEO penalty if you wish to opt out of AI training.
MyCentralAIScraperBot uses the user-agent token MyCentralAIScraperBot. You can control it via robots.txt, meta tags (noai), or the emerging llms.txt standard. Robots.txt is voluntary; for hard enforcement, combine it with server-level IP blocking.
What happens if you block MyCentralAIScraperBot?
User-agent / Disallow: / without any SEO penalty.Want to see whether MyCentralAIScraperBot actually visits you? Read how do I monitor AI bot traffic to my website?
How to block MyCentralAIScraperBot with robots.txt
<code>User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot</code> - Matching is case-insensitive. Robots.txt is fetched from the root of each subdomain separately.
Is MyCentralAIScraperBot safe to allow?
What does MyCentralAIScraperBot do?
Understanding MyCentralAIScraperBot's purpose helps you decide whether to allow or block it.
- Collects public web content to train large language models
- Builds and refreshes AI training datasets
- Harvests text, code, and structured data for model improvement
- Does NOT affect search-engine rankings
- Can be blocked to opt out of AI training without SEO loss
MyCentralAIScraperBot in context
MyCentralAIScraperBot is a training crawler operated by MyCentral AI. In plain terms, it collects pages to train AI models. Our database files it under AI and LLM crawlers and ranks it Tier 2, important crawlers from established AI and search operators. 74 of the 104 AI and LLM crawlers in our database share this tier.
Its safety rating is safe and its blocking impact is low. So the decision about MyCentralAIScraperBot rests on what you want from MyCentral AI, not on its behaviour. How we rate safety and impact.
How site owners treat MyCentralAIScraperBot
In our own scan of the Tranco top 10,000 (5,583 valid robots.txt files), 52 files (0.9%) name MyCentralAIScraperBot in a User-agent line. That shows site owners treat the token as a real crawler worth a rule. It does not, on its own, prove who operates it.
Does it follow robots.txt?
MyCentralAIScraperBot's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the MyCentralAIScraperBot rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop.
MyCentral AI crawlers and close alternatives
MyCentral AI runs only this one crawler in our database, so a single User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot group controls everything MyCentral AI fetches through it.
Other AI and LLM crawlers that do the same job (collects pages to train AI models) include ClaudeBot from Anthropic, Google-Extended from Google, GPTBot from OpenAI, Meta-ExternalAgent from Meta, AI2Bot from Allen Institute for AI, aiHitBot from aiHit. Deciding about MyCentralAIScraperBot is usually a decision about the whole group, so check how your file treats these too.
We first recorded MyCentralAIScraperBot on March 17, 2026. We could not find a page where MyCentral AI names it, so treat the token as reported rather than documented.
Which rule MyCentralAIScraperBot actually follows
MyCentralAIScraperBot reads exactly one group in robots.txt, the most specific one that names MyCentralAIScraperBot, and never combines rules across groups. This short file shows the trap:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /private/
User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /drafts/- Find the group. MyCentralAIScraperBot looks for a group naming
MyCentralAIScraperBot. One exists, so it ignoresUser-agent: *completely. - Apply only that group. It is refused
/drafts/and nothing else. - The surprise.
/private/is open to MyCentralAIScraperBot, because that rule lives in the*group it no longer reads. To keep it out of both, repeatDisallow: /private/inside its own group.
Test yourself: does a rule under User-agent: * apply to MyCentralAIScraperBot if the file also has a User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot group?
No. Once a group names it, MyCentralAIScraperBot reads only that group. Put every rule you want it to follow inside its own group.
Test yourself: will blocking MyCentralAIScraperBot remove your pages from AI answers?
No. MyCentralAIScraperBot collects training data. Blocking it changes what future models learn, not which pages AI answers cite today.
Test yourself: is User-agent: mycentralaiscraperbot the same as User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot?
Yes. RFC 9309 makes user-agent matching case-insensitive. Paths are a different story: Disallow: /Blog/ does not block /blog/.
Should you allow MyCentralAIScraperBot? Decide by situation
| If you are... | Recommended setting |
|---|---|
| You publish content and want AI answers to cite it | Your call. MyCentralAIScraperBot is a training crawler, so blocking it does not remove you from AI answers; retrieval crawlers do that job. |
| You license content and want to stop AI training | Block it by name with User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot and Disallow: /. |
| You run an online shop | Allow it unless your logs show it is costly. |
| Your server is under load from bots | Rate-limit before blocking. It is rated safe in our database. |
Check MyCentralAIScraperBot on your own site
- Open
/robots.txton your domain and search forMyCentralAIScraperBot. If it is not named, it followsUser-agent: *. - List the
Disallowlines in the group MyCentralAIScraperBot follows and test your key URLs against them; the longest match wins, andAllowwins a tie. - Look beyond the file. A firewall or bot manager can refuse MyCentralAIScraperBot even when robots.txt allows it, and that never shows in the file.
- Run our AI crawler checker to see how MyCentralAIScraperBot and every other crawler we track are treated in one pass, including firewall refusals.
Common mistakes with MyCentralAIScraperBot
The errors we see most often with MyCentralAIScraperBot in the files and firewalls we test:
- Assuming that blocking MyCentralAIScraperBot removes you from AI answers. It is a training crawler; AI answers are fed by retrieval and user-triggered crawlers with different tokens.
- Blocking MyCentralAIScraperBot with a broad
User-agent: *rule that also catches search engines. NameMyCentralAIScraperBotin its own group instead. - Expecting a MyCentralAIScraperBot block to remove content already collected. robots.txt only affects future visits.
All three hide inside a file that looks correct, so check MyCentralAIScraperBot from outside after every change.
Spotting MyCentralAIScraperBot in your logs
robots.txt says what MyCentralAIScraperBot may do; your access logs show what it actually did.
Count requests
On a server with standard Nginx or Apache logs, this counts matching requests per day (adjust the log path for your host):
grep -iE "MyCentralAIScraperBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
| awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -cAnd this shows which paths it requested most, which is the quickest way to see whether your Disallow lines are being respected:
grep -iE "MyCentralAIScraperBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
| awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20Check the requests are genuine
Anyone can send the MyCentralAIScraperBot user-agent, so confirm the source before acting on a match:
MyCentralAIScraperBot: we hold no published IP list, so use reverse DNS where the operator documents a hostname and treat an unverifiable MyCentralAIScraperBot request with caution.
Frequently Asked Questions
What user-agent string does MyCentralAIScraperBot use?
MyCentralAIScraperBot. Evidence that the spelling is in real use comes from our own robots.txt study: 52 of the 5,583 valid robots.txt files in the Tranco top 10,000 name it (fetched October 20, 2026), not from MyCentral AI, which has not published crawler documentation naming it. Use it in robots.txt as the best available match, and treat a request carrying it as a clue rather than proof of who sent it.Is MyCentralAIScraperBot safe?
Will blocking MyCentralAIScraperBot hurt my SEO?
User-agent / Disallow: / without any SEO penalty.How do I block MyCentralAIScraperBot in robots.txt?
/robots.txt file:User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot Disallow: /
This instructs MyCentralAIScraperBot not to crawl any path on your site. To block only specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g.,
Disallow: /blog/).Does MyCentralAIScraperBot respect robots.txt?
MyCentralAIScraperBot will stop a client that chooses to honour it; for enforcement, add a firewall or CDN rule as well.How do I verify if MyCentralAIScraperBot is crawling my site?
MyCentralAIScraperBot (for example grep -i "MyCentralAIScraperBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log). Because the operator publishes no IP ranges or reverse-DNS pattern, a match shows that something used the name, not that MyCentral AI sent it.