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BuobeBot

Incertae sedis

What is BuobeBot?

A self-declared bot that is not in the keepers' catalogue yet. It calls itself “BuobeBot”. It is operated by Unknown and identifies itself as BuobeBot.

Temperament: unknown. Recently arrived. The keepers are still taking notes.

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Respects robots.txt
First seen
24 Oct 2026
Last seen
3 h ago
Visits today
21
This week
29
All time
32
Caught in the trap
Never

Nobody has adopted BuobeBot yet. Adopt BuobeBot: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.

BuobeBot's food bowl

the bowl, as bots see it

The bowl is empty.

5 of 5 tokens left today
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ BuobeBot/2.0 (compatible; Buobe; +https://buobe.com/about)

There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.

Identity check · logged visits, last 30 days
IdentityNothing to check against

No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.

§ II.

How to block BuobeBot

Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from BuobeBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block BuobeBot from the whole site
User-agent: BuobeBot
Disallow: /

Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:

# Let it in, but keep it out of one room
User-agent: BuobeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 21 / day, 3 Nov 2026
5 Oct 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/8
/robots.txt4
/leaderboard2
/feed-the-bots2
/feed.xml1
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 07:00. Before the coffee is made.

robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 32 requests. Read robots.txt 4 times.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:

Networks · 1 on file, last 30 days
Hetzner Online GmbH AS213230100%
Countries
United States US100%

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Keeper's field notes

3 Nov 2026Visited 21 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
3 Nov 202607:57. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /leaderboard and /feed-the-bots. Departed.
3 Nov 2026Observed reading robots.txt in full. Complied with every word.
24 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Incertae sedis.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does BuobeBot respect robots.txt?

Yes. In 32 requests observed here it has read robots.txt and never fetched a disallowed page.

Will blocking BuobeBot hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does BuobeBot visit?

Here, about 4 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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