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HomininBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTCrawler for Hominin, an independent general web search engine. Obeys robots.txt, Crawl-delay and noindex.
Identification
Bot name
HomininBot
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
homininbot
Rated Oct 9, 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
Yes
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
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Googlebot ignores robots.txt - Google Search Central Community
- 9 Robots.txt Rules Googlebot Ignores Even If You Add Them to Your File
- HUMAN and TollBit Empower Websites with Robust Bot Management and Content Monetization Solutions for AI Agents
- Does llms.txt Help SEO? Google Says It Ignores the File
Block or allow HomininBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for HomininBot 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 HomininBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: HomininBot Disallow: / # Allow HomininBot full access User-agent: HomininBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows HomininBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 9, 2026
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