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AsReportedBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTReads public press releases and official feeds to write asreported.news; obeys robots.txt and crawl-delay; no training.
Identification
Bot name
AsReportedBot
Category
Feed Fetcher
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
asreportedbot
User-agent patterns
AsReportedBotUser-agent string
AsReportedBot/0.2 (+https://asreported.app/bot; news publisher; reads public press releases and official notices; contact: [email protected])
Rated Oct 25, 2026 from public evidence
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Yes
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence
What we read
- Where did Perplexity say they would obey robots.txt? They explicitly document th... | Hacker News
- What Is Robots.txt? | How a Robots.txt File Works
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them)
- OpenAI, Anthropic Ignore Rule That Prevents Bots Scraping Web Content - Business Insider
Block or allow AsReportedBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for AsReportedBot 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 AsReportedBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: AsReportedBot Disallow: / # Allow AsReportedBot full access User-agent: AsReportedBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows AsReportedBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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Data sources
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Last updated October 25, 2026
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