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CensysInspect

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A security scanning agent that performs internet-wide discovery to identify publicly accessible devices, services, and potential vulnerabilities.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Security

Identification

Bot name

CensysInspect

How we rated this bot

Identifies itself honestly, and we found no credible reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

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

Block or allow CensysInspect

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CensysInspect/1.1; +https://about.censys.io/) 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 CensysInspect from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CensysInspect/1.1; +https://about.censys.io/)
Disallow: /

# Allow CensysInspect full access
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CensysInspect/1.1; +https://about.censys.io/)
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CensysInspect/1.1; +https://about.censys.io/). Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

Cloudflare Radar traffic

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Links & references

Operator documentation

about.censys.io

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

FathomDiscovery

Last updated September 29, 2026

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