--- title: "Cohere Crawler Simulator & Tester for Any URL" url: https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/coherebot-simulator description: "Simulate a Cohere crawler visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML, status code, and headers Cohere's AI crawler gets. Free." lang: en --- All Crawler Simulators (https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator) Image: CohereAI (https://encited.com/crawler-logos/cohere.svg) Crawler simulator # Cohere AI Crawler Simulator & Tester Last updated September 29, 2026 Simulate a Cohere crawler visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML Cohere collects for enterprise AI and RAG. SIMULATE ## Simulate a CohereAI visit Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as CohereAI and inspect the HTML it gets. How it works ## How to use the CohereAI simulator 1. Step 1 ### Enter a URL Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page. 2. Step 2 ### Select the CohereAI user agent The tester sends the request with the CohereAI user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real CohereAI visit. 3. Step 3 ### Run the crawl The simulator requests the page as CohereAI and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does. 4. Step 4 ### Inspect the HTML Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags CohereAI gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, CohereAI cannot read it. Overview ## What is CohereAI? CohereAI is the web crawler used by Cohere, an enterprise-focused AI company. Cohere provides AI models and APIs used by businesses for various applications including search, classification, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Their crawler collects data to improve these AI services. Why allow it ## Why allow CohereAI? Be included in Cohere's AI training data Support enterprise RAG applications built with Cohere Appear in Cohere-powered search systems Contribute to enterprise AI knowledge bases Robots.txt ## CohereAI robots.txt configuration Control how CohereAI crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change. ### Allow CohereAI \# Allow Cohere AI crawler User-agent: cohere-ai Allow: / User-agent: CohereAI Allow: / ### Block CohereAI \# Block Cohere AI crawler User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: CohereAI Disallow: / **User-Agent String:** `CohereAI/1.0` ## CohereAI simulator FAQ ### How do I simulate a CohereAI visit to my website? ### What is Cohere and what does it use my content for? ### Should I allow or block Cohere's crawler? ### Is Cohere's crawler aggressive? ### Does blocking Cohere affect search rankings? ### How does Cohere differ from OpenAI? ## Related Crawler Simulators ChatGPT Fetch Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/chatgpt-crawler-simulator Anthropic Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/claudebot-simulator AI2Bot Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/ai2bot-simulator CCBot Simulator https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator/ccbot-simulator ## More Free SEO Tools Continue auditing your site with these companion tools. 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Get Indexed by ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Search: https://encited.com/blog/how-to-get-pages-indexed-by-openai-chatgpt Is Lovable SEO Friendly? A Practical Guide: https://encited.com/blog/is-lovable-seo-friendly What Is Pre-rendering for SPAs?: https://encited.com/docs/pre-rendering/what-pre-rendering-gets-you Fix Lovable SEO: The Complete 2026 Guide: https://encited.com/blog/fix-lovable-seo Get started ## Make your site crawlable JavaScript sites often have indexing issues. Encited pre-renders your SPA into crawler-friendly HTML so CohereAI and other bots can read your content. All crawlers: https://encited.com/free-tools/crawler-simulator Image: Avatar (https://replymaven.com/api/uploads/Su6Q0nK63iZW0ZFJBRNWpmRuppVDLuab/98df5262-f992-45fa-a750-00a6c919baf9.png) How can we help? Get instant answers to your questions or leave a message for an engineer will reach out Ask AI about Encited See our docs (https://lovablehtml.com/docs) Contact support Leave a message We'll get back to you soon Ask AI about Encited Product questions, troubleshooting and Thinking Image: Preview Drop an image to attach Powered by ReplyMaven (https://replymaven.com/) ## Structured data ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [ { "@type": "Question", "name": "How do I simulate a CohereAI visit to my website?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Enter any URL from your website in the tester above and run the crawl. The simulator requests the page with the CohereAI user-agent string and shows the status code, response headers, and raw HTML it gets. 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