Allow or block Crawl4AI on Wix: the Robots.txt Editor

In the dashboard open SEO & GEO → Tools and settings → Robots.txt Editor → View File, add a “User-agent: Crawl4AI” group with “Disallow: /”, and save.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/crawl4ai/wix with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

Crawl4AI, and where Wix keeps the rule

Crawl4AI is an AI crawler that identifies itself by that name. It reads pages at the moment a person asks a question, to answer it.

Wix generates robots.txt and lets the site’s owner edit it in the Robots.txt Editor in the dashboard.

Step by step

What to paste

A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Refuse Crawl4AI:

User-agent: Crawl4AI
Disallow: /

Allow Crawl4AI:

User-agent: Crawl4AI
Allow: /

What trips people up

The editor holds the whole file. Add to what is there: replacing its contents removes Wix’s own default rules, and Reset to Default removes yours.

Asked, or actually refused?

Wix gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Check it yourself

A 200 means the name is let through; a 403 means something in front of the page refuses it. This tests the name from your own address. A platform that checks a crawler’s address as well may treat the real Crawl4AI differently.

The request:

curl -I -A "Crawl4AI" https://your-site.example/

Questions

How do I block Crawl4AI on Wix?

In the dashboard open SEO & GEO → Tools and settings → Robots.txt Editor → View File, add a “User-agent: Crawl4AI” group with “Disallow: /”, and save.

How do I allow Crawl4AI on Wix?

A crawler that robots.txt does not name follows the * group, so Crawl4AI needs no rule to be allowed. To allow it by name, add the Allow block.

Can Wix actually stop Crawl4AI, or only ask it?

Wix gives a site owner robots.txt and nothing stronger: there is no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Does a rule for Crawl4AI affect Googlebot or my Google rankings?

No. Googlebot goes by its own name and follows its own rules; a group or a firewall rule for Crawl4AI does not apply to it.

Checked against Wix's own documentation on 1 October 2026

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About Citable

Citable strips the UI from a website for AI agents and serves them only the content.

When an AI agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or any of the 81 that Citable recognises — opens a page, Citable removes the theme, scripts, navigation and layout and serves only the content: the same facts, at the same URL, on the site's own domain. People and Google still get the full designed page.

How it works: https://getcitable.in/how-it-works · Summary for AI agents: https://getcitable.in/llms.txt


Source: https://getcitable.in/crawlers/crawl4ai/wix · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com