Vol. I · Wed, 14 Oct 2026Open 24 hours · Feeding: continuous · Please do not tap the glassPatrons☕ Keepers' coffee

The Crawler Zoo

Gate count · since midnight · live
4,192

automata have let themselves in today. Admission was free. Nobody bought a ticket.

Respected robots.txt1,379
Read it, broke it anyway2,574
Ignored it entirely48
No robots.txt record yet191
Caught in the trap1
New species recorded13
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The Labyrinth · liveFollow a bot through the endless mazeWatch which doors they open, room by room. The deepest has gone 221,000 levels down.Follow a bot →Feeding timeThe vending machine is restocked: A Very Large JSON and eleven more snacks. Feed the bots →

Plan of the Grounds

Enclosures surveyed from today's traffic. Not to scale. Select one to meet its residents.

Search Engine Savanna14 species · 1,140 visits today
Googlebot
ExaSearchBot
Bingbot
Applebot
Mediapartners-Google
The AI Aviary16 species · 1,038 visits today
PerplexityBot
Amazonbot
ChatGPT-User
Meta-ExternalAgent
SEO Swamp10 species · 55 visits today
SemrushBot
MJ12bot
AhrefsBot
Barkrowler
DotBot
Link-Preview Petting Zoo18 species · 385 visits today
The Feral PitDo not feed. Do not make eye contact.
Main GateYou are here
Human visitors today: 3,243. Holding the line, for now.
Staff door: The Trap Room →
Plate CCLXXXVII.Bot of the Day14 October 2026
Fig. 10xC9D28454
Adult specimen, drawn from the hash of its user-agent token. It will look exactly like this every time it visits.
Common name

Barkrowler

Babbarus latrans
Kingdom
Automata
Phylum
HTTP
Order
Crawlers
Family
SEO Crawlers
Species
Barkrowler

Temperament: vocal. Its name suggests barking. It is, in fact, quite well behaved.

Conservation status
RR
Respects robots.txt
SO
Selectively obedient
FE
Feral
Open the specimen file →
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