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Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler

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Bibliothèque nationale de France's mission is to collect, catalog, preserve, enrich and communicate the national documentary heritage. Operated by Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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Assessment

Academic Research

What is Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler?

Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler is a web crawler operated by Bibliothèque nationale de France. Bibliothèque nationale de France's mission is to collect, catalog, preserve, enrich and communicate the national documentary heritage.

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

Identification

Bot name

Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler

Operator

Bibliothèque nationale de France

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

Not stated

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

Why it crawls your site

Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler crawls websites to collect data for academic and scientific research. It is operated by Bibliothèque nationale de France as part of their academic research infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for bnf.fr_bot 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 Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: bnf.fr_bot
Disallow: /

# Allow Bibliotheque Nacional de France Crawler full access
User-agent: bnf.fr_bot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows bnf.fr_bot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Bibliothèque nationale de France's documentation.