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xAI SearchBot
xAI SearchBot is xAI's crawler. This crawler fetches a page in real time to answer a specific user's question.
Crawler facts
| Operator | xAI |
|---|---|
| User agent token | xai-searchbot |
| Traffic type | AI answers |
| Verification | User agent only |
| IP source | xAI publishes no IP list. |
What "verified" means for xAI SearchBot
xAI publishes no IP list for xAI SearchBot, so a request claiming this user agent can never be proven genuine. DataSaaS always records it as unverified.
Track it
xAI SearchBot fetches raw HTML and never runs JavaScript, so no browser tag can see it. Install the DataSaaS server-side package to record every request and verify the ones that publish IP ranges.
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