omgili: what it is, who runs it, and how to allow or block it

omgili is a crawler run by Webz.io. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index. Its name in robots.txt, how it shows up in server logs, whether its identity can be checked, and how to allow or refuse it on each platform.

This response

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

What omgili is

omgili is a crawler run by Webz.io. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Should you refuse it?

omgili reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Webz.io collects them for. It does not change how Google or Bing rank you: search crawlers go by other names, with rules of their own.

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.

Is a request really omgili?

Citable holds no published address list for Webz.io, so a read that claims to be omgili is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send it.

Allowing or refusing omgili in robots.txt

Add one group for each name it answers to (omgili, webzio). “Allow: /” lets it read the site and “Disallow: /” refuses it.

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 omgili:

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: webzio
Disallow: /

Allow omgili:

User-agent: omgili
Allow: /

User-agent: webzio
Allow: /

Where the rule for omgili goes, platform by platform

Questions

What is omgili?

omgili is a crawler run by Webz.io. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Who runs omgili?

Webz.io. It is the only name Citable recognises for Webz.io.

How do I allow or block omgili in robots.txt?

Add one group for each name it answers to (omgili, webzio). “Allow: /” lets it read the site and “Disallow: /” refuses it. 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.

Should I block omgili?

omgili reads ahead of time. Refusing it keeps your pages out of what Webz.io collects them for. It does not change how Google or Bing rank you: search crawlers go by other names, with rules of their own.

How do I see omgili in my server logs?

In an access log omgili appears as a user agent containing “omgili” or “webzio”.

How do I know a request is really omgili?

Citable holds no published address list for Webz.io, so a read that claims to be omgili is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send it.

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/omgili · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com