CMU-Cylab
GoodBotVerifiedBOTAn academic research bot, conducting research on patterns in counterfeit document sales over the internet. Operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
What is CMU-Cylab?
CMU-Cylab is an automated crawler maintained by the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. It is designed to facilitate large-scale data gathering for academic research projects, often focusing on network security, privacy, and the evolution of web technologies. Unlike commercial crawlers, its activity is typically tied to specific university research initiatives rather than search indexing or advertising.
Identification
CMU-CylabHow we rated this bot
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What we read
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls the web to build datasets necessary for empirical research into internet-scale security and privacy phenomena. By analyzing the structure and content of websites, researchers at CMU can identify trends in web vulnerabilities, privacy policy implementation, and user-facing security features. The operator provides a link to an informational page within the User-Agent string, allowing site administrators to identify the source of the traffic and contact the research team if necessary.
Block or allow CMU-Cylab
Add a Disallow rule for CMU-Cylab 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 CMU-Cylab from crawling your entire site User-agent: CMU-Cylab Disallow: / # Allow CMU-Cylab full access User-agent: CMU-Cylab Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows CMU-Cylab. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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