Bot signals — Search & SEO crawler

Ahrefs crawlers IP addresses

Ahrefs crawler infrastructure

risk.is_crawler Ranges Reviewed

Check an IP

Is this IP really Ahrefs crawlers?

Checks the address against what Ahrefs crawlers publishes, the same evidence behind risk.is_crawler.

01 — Verification

How IPAPI.GR verifies Ahrefs crawlers.

Only from what Ahrefs crawlers publishes about itself. No third-party blocklists, no behavioural guesses. Live address counts change with every publication, so check the official file for the current list.

02 — In the response

What a match looks like.

A lookup of a Ahrefs crawlers address sets risk.is_crawler. The flags come with geolocation and network data in the same response, for Pro API keys.

The response says which kind of bot an address belongs to, not which operator. Pair it with the user agent: a request that claims to be Ahrefs crawlers but doesn't match is unverified.

GET /api/lookup/{ip}?key=PRO_KEY
{
  // … location and network fields …
  "risk": {
    "is_ai": false,
    "is_crawler": true,
    "is_scanner": false
  }
}

03 — Questions

About Ahrefs crawlers.

Where does Ahrefs crawlers publish its IP addresses?

Ahrefs crawlers publishes its addresses at https://api.ahrefs.com/v3/public/crawler-ip-ranges. IPAPI.GR reads that publication directly, not a third-party copy.

How often is the Ahrefs crawlers list refreshed?

IPAPI.GR re-fetches it every hour. If a refresh fails, the previous entries expire after at most 24 hours instead of being trusted forever.

Which risk flag does Ahrefs crawlers set?

A matching address sets risk.is_crawler in the lookup response. The risk flags are returned for Pro API keys.

Verify Ahrefs crawlers on every request.

Pro: 40,000,000 requests a day with is_ai, is_crawler and is_scanner in every lookup.