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Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species Nextcloud-Server-Crawler
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Nextcloud-Server-Crawler

Incertae sedis

What is Nextcloud-Server-Crawler?

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

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

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
5 Oct 2026
Last seen
8 h ago
Visits today
14
This week
14
All time
14
Caught in the trap
Never

Nobody has adopted Nextcloud-Server-Crawler yet. Adopt Nextcloud-Server-Crawler: your name goes on a plaque on this page for a year.

Nextcloud-Server-Crawler'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
$ Nextcloud-Server-Crawler/34.0.4

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 Nextcloud-Server-Crawler

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 Nextcloud-Server-Crawler's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

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

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 14 / day
6 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/block-ai-crawlers6
/6
/og/page/block-ai-crawlers.png1
/og/home.png1
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 08:00. Before the coffee is made.

robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 14 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 · 1 on file, last 30 days
Contabo GmbH AS51167100%
Countries
Germany DE100%

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 Oct 202609:25. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /block-ai-crawlers and /. Departed.
5 Oct 2026Visited 14 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
5 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Incertae sedis.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does Nextcloud-Server-Crawler respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking Nextcloud-Server-Crawler hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does Nextcloud-Server-Crawler visit?

Here, about 2 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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