GeistHaus-PageFetcher

Operator

GeistHaus, a company developing AI systems for therapy and psychological assessment

robots.txt token

GeistHaus-PageFetcher

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Other bots

What it does

GeistHaus-PageFetcher is a web crawler operated by GeistHaus, a company developing AI systems for therapy and psychological assessment. This bot fetches web pages as part...

ai.robots.txt describes its function as: AI Assistants

Source: ai.robots.txt.

How to block or allow GeistHaus-PageFetcher

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: GeistHaus-PageFetcher
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 GeistHaus-PageFetcher

When a request's user agent contains GeistHaus-PageFetcher, 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)