Hatena
GoodBotVerifiedBOTHatena's service automatically visits web pages to get the information it needs to use in the service. Operated by Hatena.
What is Hatena?
Hatena is a web crawler operated by Hatena. Hatena's service automatically visits web pages to get the information it needs to use in the service.
Identification
HatenaWhy it crawls your site
Hatena crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Hatena as part of their feed aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Hatena
Add a Disallow rule for Hatena 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 Hatena from crawling your entire site User-agent: Hatena Disallow: / # Allow Hatena full access User-agent: Hatena Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Hatena. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Hatena's documentation.
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