DrugCardBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTDrugCardBot is a respectful web crawler by DrugCard that indexes public medical information from trusted sources. Operated by DrugCard.
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.
Identification
DrugCardBotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
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- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them) - seoClarity
- The Major Companies and Media Outlets Blocking OpenAI's Crawler GPTBot - Business Insider
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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
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: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows DrugCardBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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