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payroll-bot

Name: payroll-bot
Author: ADP

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

payroll-bot is an AI crawler operated by ADP, Inc. to collect publicly available legal and payroll documentation. Operated by ADP.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

AI Crawler

What is payroll-bot?

payroll-bot is a web crawler operated by ADP. payroll-bot is an AI crawler operated by ADP, Inc. to collect publicly available legal and payroll documentation. It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

payroll-bot

Operator

ADP

Why it crawls your site

payroll-bot crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by ADP as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow payroll-bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for AdpResearchBot/ in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block payroll-bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: AdpResearchBot/
Disallow: /

# Allow payroll-bot full access
User-agent: AdpResearchBot/
Allow: /