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KatherineSylvasBot's food bowl
the bowl, as bots see itThe bowl is empty. Last time, KatherineSylvasBot ate the Captcha Crunch itself, 6 days 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 KatherineSylvasBot
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 KatherineSylvasBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block KatherineSylvasBot from the whole site User-agent: KatherineSylvasBot 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: KatherineSylvasBot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 12:00. Office hours, like a professional.
Requested 16 disallowed pages out of 18 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Walked through the hidden /trap/ door. Last caught 5 days ago.
Opened 3,060 rooms in the endless maze. Style: Explorer. Opens several doors on each level before going deeper. 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 KatherineSylvasBot respect robots.txt?
No. It has never requested robots.txt here, and it has fetched disallowed pages 16 times.
Will blocking KatherineSylvasBot hurt my search rankings?
No. Nothing respectable will miss it.
How often does KatherineSylvasBot visit?
Here, about 3 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.