What is lyonl-crawler?

lyonl-crawler is the web crawler for Lyonl Search, a search engine that indexes web content to provide search results. This bot crawls websites to build and maintain their open web search index focused on relevance, transparency, and speed. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when lyonl-crawler visits your website.

Category

Search Engine Crawler
Systematically scans and indexes web pages to include in search results
Do you operate this agent? Contact us to suggest an update.
Example User Agent lyonl-crawler/0.1 (+https://lyonl.com/crawler; crawler@lyonl.com)
Operated By Lyonl
Source Official Website
Triggered By Automated crawl
Used for AI Model Training Not expected
Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility Possibly
Expected To Follow Robots.txt Yes

Why Is lyonl-crawler Visiting My Website?

lyonl-crawler is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.

Should I Block lyonl-crawler?

No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. lyonl-crawler supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for lyonl-crawler.

How Do I Block lyonl-crawler Using Robots.txt?

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block lyonl-crawler from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: lyonl-crawler # https://knownagents.com/agents/lyonl-crawler
Disallow: /

Insights for lyonl-crawler

As of November 9, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.

Robots.txt Compliance

Not enough activity

Country of Origin

United States
lyonl-crawler traffic often comes from the United States

Robots.txt Blocked Percentage

7%
7% of top websites are blocking lyonl-crawler
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Top Visited Website Categories

Food and Drink
Arts and Entertainment
Computers and Electronics
Health
Business and Industrial

Robots.txt Blocking Trend

7% of top websites block lyonl-crawler in their robots.txts.

lyonl-crawler Traffic

Not enough activity

Frequently Asked Questions

What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From lyonl-crawler?

lyonl-crawler follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.


Does lyonl-crawler Follow Robots.txt Rules?

lyonl-crawler is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether lyonl-crawler respects it.


Is lyonl-crawler Used for AI Model Training?

Not ordinarily. lyonl-crawler is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.


Does Blocking lyonl-crawler Affect AI Search or Citations?

Blocking lyonl-crawler can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.


Does lyonl-crawler Access Private Content?

No special access. lyonl-crawler can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.


How Can I Verify a Request From lyonl-crawler?

Agent Analytics tracks lyonl-crawler visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "lyonl-crawler". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because lyonl-crawler does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.


How Is lyonl-crawler Different From Other Lyonl Agents?

Lyonl operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.

  • lyonl: lyonl is a search engine crawler operated by Lyonl.