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FieldstateBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Reads public city and county meeting records (agendas, minutes). Signed, obeys robots.txt, 1 request/sec max per site.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Academic Research

Identification

Bot name

FieldstateBot

Block or allow FieldstateBot

Block it

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

# Allow FieldstateBot full access
User-agent: FieldstateBot
Allow: /