Datenbank Crawler

Operator

Datenbank

robots.txt token

Datenbank Crawler

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Other bots

What it does

Datenbank Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by Datenbank. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

ai.robots.txt describes its function as: AI Data Scrapers

Source: ai.robots.txt.

How to block or allow Datenbank Crawler

Add a group for its token to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To keep it out of the whole site:

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

To let it crawl everything, use an empty Disallow: or Allow: / instead. WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt that many SEO plugins let you edit. A real robots.txt file uploaded to the site root takes its place.

robots.txt is a request, so it only works on crawlers that honour it. A bot that ignores it has to be blocked at the server or firewall, by user agent or IP address.

How Vireo counts Datenbank Crawler

When a request's user agent contains Datenbank Crawler, Vireo keeps it out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Other bots, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over the bot's name.

Sources

• ai.robots.txt (MIT)