ElevenlabsCrawler User Agent: What It Is & How to Block It

01 · Operator

Who operates ElevenlabsCrawler

Company: ElevenLabs
Type: AI training crawler
Official docs: elevenlabs.io

02 · Behavior

What ElevenlabsCrawler does

The crawler fetches public web pages to gather training data for ElevenLabs' AI models. ElevenLabs states that disallowing it signals that a site's content should not be used for training. Changes to robots.txt take effect within about 24 hours, according to ElevenLabs.

03 · Impact

Why ElevenlabsCrawler matters for your site

If you allow it

Your content can inform ElevenLabs' AI models
Blocking it does not affect ElevenlabsBot, which fetches pages for customer agents

If you block it

Training crawls send no referral traffic
Keeps your content out of ElevenLabs model training
Saves crawl bandwidth

04 · Allow

How to allow ElevenlabsCrawler

robots.txt

User-agent: ElevenlabsCrawler
Allow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "ElevenlabsCrawler")
Action:     Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules

# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: ElevenlabsCrawler
Allow: /

nginx

# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "ElevenlabsCrawler") { return 403; }

Apache

# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ElevenlabsCrawler [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

05 · Block

How to block ElevenlabsCrawler

Start with robots.txt. If ElevenlabsCrawler keeps showing up in your logs, block it at your CDN or web server.

robots.txt

User-agent: ElevenlabsCrawler
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "ElevenlabsCrawler")
Action:     Block

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: ElevenlabsCrawler
Disallow: /

nginx

# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ElevenlabsCrawler") {
    return 403;
}

Apache

# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ElevenlabsCrawler [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>

06 · User agents

User agents we see for ElevenlabsCrawler

The user agent published by the operator:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ElevenlabsCrawler/1.0; +https://elevenlabs.io/docs/bots)

07 · Verification

Is it really ElevenlabsCrawler?

ElevenlabsCrawler’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.

FAQ

Questions about ElevenlabsCrawler

How do I block ElevenlabsCrawler?

Add "User-agent: ElevenlabsCrawler" followed by "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt. ElevenLabs says changes take effect within about 24 hours.

Does blocking ElevenlabsCrawler also block ElevenlabsBot?

No. ElevenlabsBot fetches pages that customers add to their agents' knowledge bases and is controlled with its own robots.txt token.

Can I verify that a request comes from ElevenlabsCrawler?

ElevenLabs does not document IP ranges or a reverse DNS check for this crawler. The user agent alone can be spoofed.

ElevenlabsCrawler is ElevenLabs’ AI training crawler