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WRanking

A considerate crawler

WebScopeBot

WebScopeBot collects a limited set of publicly available website signals to build an independent, transparent web index.

Identification

User agent: WebScopeBot/1.0 (+https://example.com/bot)

The production contact URL and product domain are configurable. Requests use this recognizable user agent and ordinary HTTP first; browser rendering is a separate, throttled job.

Robots and load

We fetch and honor robots.txt before crawling. Domain-level concurrency, page count, response size, redirect count and time are bounded. Interactive anonymous requests inspect only the homepage. Crawl-delay is honored where reasonably expressed.

Blocking the crawler

To block all access, add User-agent: WebScopeBot and Disallow: / to robots.txt. Existing public observations can be reviewed through the data-correction contact channel.

Safety

The crawler refuses localhost, private, link-local, reserved and cloud-metadata destinations. It validates every redirect and pins connections to a validated public address to resist DNS rebinding.