Groups.io AI Crawler Policy
You are seeing this page because your system has been identified as an AI crawler accessing Groups.io.
Groups.io does not permit unlicensed AI crawlers to access, scrape, or index our content. Our data represents the work and collaboration of millions of people, and we are committed to protecting the integrity and privacy of our communities.
In addition to safeguarding our members' data, we actively protect our infrastructure and compute resources from unauthorized use and excessive load caused by unapproved automated systems.
Only public group archives are available for licensing. Private archives and other data are never available for licensing under any circumstances.
Groups.io has a unique, high-signal text data source that could be a significant asset for training your next generation of models.
Here's a snapshot of our data:
- Scale: A corpus of ~78M emails, some dating back to 1999.
- Structure: Content is neatly organized across ~40,000 active, topic-specific groups, ranging from highly technical (software development, engineering) to niche hobbies and support communities.
- Quality: The data consists of long-form, thoughtful discussions, not low-signal social media chatter. It provides a deep, authentic view into how people solve problems, share expertise, and discuss interests.
- Uniqueness: This is a proprietary, real-time corpus, including deep historical archives, that has not been part of publicly available datasets.
Unlike scraped data, we can offer a clean, commercially licensed, and structured data feed tailored for AI training, with PII rigorously removed and a clear opt-in framework for our public communities. The fact that we constantly fight off scrapers is the clearest signal we have of the demand for this content.
If you want to license public Groups.io data for AI training or other purposes, please contact us at:
We are open to responsible partnerships and will be happy to discuss licensing terms.
Unauthorized crawling is strictly prohibited.