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Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species Lightpanda
Specimen file · The Feral Pit

Lightpanda

Incertae sedis
In the Labyrinth now · level 11 · Watch live →

What is Lightpanda?

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

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

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Feral
First seen
12 Oct 2026
Last seen
3 s ago
Visits today
3
This week
3
All time
5
Caught in the trap
Never

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

Lightpanda'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
$ Lightpanda/1.0

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 Lightpanda

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

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

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 3 / day, 5 Nov 2026
7 Oct 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/adopt2
/2
/api/labyrinth/smallwebindexspider1
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 16:00. Office hours, like a professional.

robots.txt compliance
80.0%

Requested 1 disallowed pages out of 5 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

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

In the Labyrinth
Level 12

Opened 29,241 rooms in the endless maze. Style: Explorer. Opens several doors on each level before going deeper. Watch it in the Labyrinth →

§ 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 · 3 on file, last 30 days
FiberPower LLC AS21448340%
GTHost AS6302340%
Amazon.com, Inc. AS1461820%
Countries
United States US60%
France FR20%
Germany DE20%

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

5 Nov 202616:47. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /adopt and /api/labyrinth/smallwebindexspider. Departed.
5 Nov 2026Visited 3 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
12 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Incertae sedis.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does Lightpanda respect robots.txt?

No. It has never requested robots.txt here, and it has fetched disallowed pages 1 times.

Will blocking Lightpanda hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does Lightpanda 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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