Terracotta
GoodBotVerifiedBOTThe Terracotta bot scrapes websites for use in generating indices for serving searches using Ceramic's search product. Operated by Ceramic.
What is Terracotta?
Terracotta is a web crawler operated by Ceramic. The Terracotta bot scrapes websites for use in generating indices for serving searches using Ceramic's search product. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
TerracottaWhy it crawls your site
Terracotta crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Ceramic as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Terracotta
Add a Disallow rule for Terracotta 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 Terracotta from crawling your entire site User-agent: Terracotta Disallow: / # Allow Terracotta full access User-agent: Terracotta Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Terracotta. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Ceramic's documentation.
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