Zhipu AI · Training crawlers
ChatGLM-Spider
Zhipu’s ChatGLM public-content spider. Treat it as a training-style crawl unless Zhipu documents a separate search UA.
- Operator
- Zhipu AI
- Traffic type
- Training crawlers
- Verification
- Not independently verifiable
- robots.txt
- Compliance not documented
Usually means: Bots that collect public pages for future models. Blocking them opts you out of training. It does not, by itself, remove you from live AI search citations.
User-agent
robots.txt and most WAF rules match the token, not the full Mozilla string. Operators often wrap ChatGLM-Spider in extra product or version text.
ChatGLM-Spider
What ChatGLM-Spider does
ChatGLM-Spider collects public documents for Zhipu AI systems. It is not a Google ranking crawler.
How to get discovered
If you want Zhipu products to read you on demand, allow the spider or any documented user-fetch token. Otherwise Disallow and enforce at the edge if needed.
Why ChatGLM-Spider might skip you
Default unknown-bot blocks, or robots files that never mention Zhipu tokens.
robots.txt rule
This snippet opts out of training-style collection. Keep the search and user-fetch tokens from the same operator allowed if you still want citations.
# Optional training opt-out — does not remove you from AI search by itself
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
Disallow: /Zhipu AI has not published a machine-readable range file for this token. Do not treat the user-agent alone as proof of identity.
JavaScript: reads raw HTML only.
ChatGLM-Spider FAQ
What is ChatGLM-Spider?
ChatGLM-Spider collects public documents for Zhipu AI systems. It is not a Google ranking crawler.
Should I allow ChatGLM-Spider in robots.txt?
Only if you want to opt out of training-style collection. Blocking ChatGLM-Spider does not, by itself, remove you from live AI search citations — those use the search and user-fetch tokens from Zhipu AI.
How do I know a request is really ChatGLM-Spider?
Zhipu AI has not published a range file for this token. Treat the user-agent as a claimed identity, and do not build a hard IP allowlist from blog posts or screenshots.
Letting ChatGLM-Spider in is the start. Getting cited is the job.
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