What TemsoBot does
TemsoBot crawls public web pages to analyze how content appears across AI answer engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. The data powers Temso's AI visibility analytics; it is not used to train AI models or build a public search index.
Should I allow TemsoBot to crawl my site?
Allowing or blocking TemsoBot has no effect on your AI search visibility itself. Allowing it lets Temso analyze your pages, which powers visibility audits and source tracking for your own brand as well as competitive analyses.
How to control TemsoBot
Target TemsoBot in your robots.txt with the TemsoBot token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow TemsoBot
User-agent: TemsoBot
Allow: /Block TemsoBot
User-agent: TemsoBot
Disallow: /TemsoBot honors Disallow rules and Crawl-delay directives up to 30 seconds, spaces requests to the same hostname at least 0.5 seconds apart, and backs off on 403, 429, or 503 responses, honoring Retry-After headers. Genuine requests both identify as TemsoBot and originate from the IP addresses published at docs.temso.ai/temsobot.json.
User-agent string
As published by Temso AI. Remember that user-agent strings can be spoofed, so verify suspicious traffic against the operator's published IP ranges.
TemsoBot/1.0 (+https://docs.temso.ai/docs/bots/temsobot/)TemsoBot FAQ
What is TemsoBot?
TemsoBot is the crawler operated by Temso AI, an AI search analytics platform. It reads public web pages to analyze how content appears across AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. It does not collect training data for AI models.
How do I block TemsoBot?
Add a robots.txt group with "User-agent: TemsoBot" and "Disallow: /". TemsoBot re-fetches robots.txt around each crawl, so changes take effect on the next crawl cycle. To throttle instead of block, TemsoBot honors Crawl-delay values up to 30 seconds.
How do I verify that a request is really from TemsoBot?
Genuine TemsoBot traffic satisfies two conditions: the user agent identifies as TemsoBot, and the request originates from an IP address in the official list at docs.temso.ai/temsobot.json. Traffic claiming to be TemsoBot from other addresses is not legitimate.
About SEO & Analytics Crawlers
Crawlers behind SEO and marketing-intelligence platforms: backlink databases, site audits, rank tracking, and brand monitoring.
Blocking these has no effect on search or AI visibility. It mainly limits what third-party tools (including your competitors' tools) can see about your site.
