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foureff

Name: foureff
Author: BITS - Benedikt IT Services e.U.

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4F operates a web crawler on behalf of its users. It continuously monitors sites for broken links and failing assets. Operated by BITS - Benedikt IT Services e.U..

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Assessment

AI Assistant

What is foureff?

foureff is a web crawler operated by BITS - Benedikt IT Services e.U.. 4F operates a web crawler on behalf of its users. It continuously monitors sites for broken links and failing assets.

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

Identification

Bot name

foureff

Operator

BITS - Benedikt IT Services e.U.

Why it crawls your site

foureff crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by BITS - Benedikt IT Services e.U. as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow foureff

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for 4f.at/crawler 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 foureff from crawling your entire site
User-agent: 4f.at/crawler
Disallow: /

# Allow foureff full access
User-agent: 4f.at/crawler
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows 4f.at/crawler. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to BITS - Benedikt IT Services e.U.'s documentation.