ConquestBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTIndexes public vehicle listings from Ontario dealer websites for consumer price comparison on drivefrank.ca. Operated by Conquest Cars Canada Inc..
What is ConquestBot?
ConquestBot is a proprietary web crawler developed by Conquest Cars Canada Inc. to support their automotive marketplace platform. It systematically scans the websites of OMVIC-registered dealers across Ontario to extract real-time vehicle inventory and pricing data. This information is then processed to help potential car buyers compare market options and to provide dealers with competitive benchmarking analytics.
Identification
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
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Why it crawls your site
The primary purpose of ConquestBot is to maintain an up-to-date, centralized database of vehicle listings, which serves as the foundation for the Conquest Cars platform. By crawling dealer sites, the bot ensures that the inventory displayed to consumers is accurate and reflective of current regional market conditions. Site owners can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking its dedicated IP address (162.243.168.153) and its reverse DNS entry, and they can manage its behavior through standard robots.txt directives or by contacting the operator directly.
Block or allow ConquestBot
Add a Disallow rule for ConquestBot 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 ConquestBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: ConquestBot Disallow: / # Allow ConquestBot full access User-agent: ConquestBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows ConquestBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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