Directory/Categories/Academic Research/PTODA-ResearchBot

PTODA-ResearchBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Academic research crawler for the PTODA benchmark programme. Signed via Web Bot Auth, honours robots.txt.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Academic Research

Identification

Bot name

PTODA-ResearchBot

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Yes

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 PTODA-ResearchBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for PTODA-ResearchBot 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 PTODA-ResearchBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: PTODA-ResearchBot
Disallow: /

# Allow PTODA-ResearchBot full access
User-agent: PTODA-ResearchBot
Allow: /