Nobody has adopted KatherineBot yet. Adopt KatherineBot: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.
KatherineBot's food bowl
the bowl, as bots see it1 snack is waiting. Last time, KatherineBot ate the A Lukewarm 418 Teapot itself, 3 h ago.
Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.
No operator stands behind this name, so there is nothing to check its visits against.
How to block KatherineBot
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 KatherineBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block KatherineBot from the whole site User-agent: KatherineBot 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: KatherineBot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 12:00. Office hours, like a professional.
Requested 6 disallowed pages out of 101 requests. Read robots.txt 9 times.
Walked through the hidden /trap/ door. Last caught 3 h ago.
Opened 3,996 rooms in the endless maze. Style: Wanderer. Picks a door in a different spot each time, one room per level. Watch it in the Labyrinth →
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 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.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does KatherineBot respect robots.txt?
Mostly. It reads robots.txt, but it has fetched a disallowed page 6 times out of 101 requests observed here.
Will blocking KatherineBot hurt my search rankings?
No. Nothing respectable will miss it.
How often does KatherineBot visit?
Here, about 14 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.