Freshping
GoodBotVerifiedBOTCheck website is online and issue an alert when its down Operated by Freshworks.
What is Freshping?
Freshping is a web crawler operated by Freshworks. Check website is online and issue an alert when its down
Identification
FreshpingHow 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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Why it crawls your site
Freshping crawls websites to test and verify website accessibility compliance. It is operated by Freshworks as part of their accessibility testing infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Freshping
Add a Disallow rule for Freshping 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 Freshping from crawling your entire site User-agent: Freshping Disallow: / # Allow Freshping full access User-agent: Freshping Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Freshping. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Freshworks's documentation.
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