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DrugCardBot

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DrugCardBot is a respectful web crawler by DrugCard that indexes public medical information from trusted sources. Operated by DrugCard.

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Assessment
Aggregator
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is DrugCardBot?

DrugCardBot is an automated agent operated by DrugCard, designed to systematically index medical information from publicly accessible online sources. By focusing on health-related data, the bot supports the creation of centralized repositories that improve the accessibility and analysis of verified medical content. It is built with a focus on transparency and ethical crawling, providing clear contact information and documentation for site administrators.

Helpful — The bot adheres to strict politeness policies, including sequential domain access and a low request frequency, ensuring it does not disrupt server operations.

Identification

Bot name
DrugCardBot
Operator
DrugCard
Category
Aggregator
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
drugcardbot
User-agent patterns
DrugCardBot
User-agent string
DrugCardBot/1.0 (+https://drug-card.io/drug-card-bot-info.txt)
Main use cases
Medical data aggregationHealth information indexingPublicly available content analysis
Rated Sep 23, 2026 from public evidence

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
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

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls the web to build a comprehensive, searchable database of medical information, which helps users find verified health data more efficiently. It processes this data to ensure that the information remains current and accurate within the DrugCard ecosystem. Site owners can verify the bot's identity through its consistent user-agent string and the provided documentation URL, and they can request adjustments to its crawl behavior by contacting the operator directly.

Block or allow DrugCardBot

Block it

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

# Allow DrugCardBot full access
User-agent: DrugCardBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows DrugCardBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated October 25, 2026

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