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Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species HanaleiBot
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HanaleiBot

Incertae sedis

What is HanaleiBot?

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

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

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Feral
First seen
7 Oct 2026
Last seen
6 days ago
Visits today
0
This week
1
All time
9
Caught in the trap
Never

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

HanaleiBot'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
$ HanaleiBot runid=beta-stage-integration-test

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 HanaleiBot

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 HanaleiBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block HanaleiBot from the whole site
User-agent: HanaleiBot
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: HanaleiBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 6 / day
20 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/api/labyrinth/curl2
/block-ai-crawlers1
/bots/oai-searchbot1
/labyrinth/curl1
/1
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 21:00. After dark, like a burglar.

robots.txt compliance
77.7%

Requested 2 disallowed pages out of 9 requests. Never read robots.txt.

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 · 2 on file, last 30 days
WorldStream B.V. AS4998167%
Amazon.com, Inc. AS1650933%
Countries
Netherlands NL67%
United States US33%

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

13 Oct 202611:03. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /block-ai-crawlers and /bots/oai-searchbot. Departed.
8 Oct 2026Visited 6 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
7 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Incertae sedis.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does HanaleiBot respect robots.txt?

No. It has never requested robots.txt here, and it has fetched disallowed pages 2 times.

Will blocking HanaleiBot hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does HanaleiBot visit?

Here, about 0 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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