Idealo

Name: Idealo
Author: Idealo internet GmbH

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Germany's largest price comparison service. Runs four crawler variants (pricevalidator, badgechecker, inventoryanalyser, inventory-image-downloader) to verify partner shop prices, check badge integration, analyse inventory, and download product images. Operated by Idealo internet GmbH.

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Assessment

Aggregator

What is Idealo?

Idealo is a web crawler operated by Idealo internet GmbH. Germany's largest price comparison service. Runs four crawler variants (pricevalidator, badgechecker, inventoryanalyser, inventory-image-downloader) to verify partner shop prices, check badge integration, analyse inventory, and download product images.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Idealo

Operator

Idealo internet GmbH

Why it crawls your site

Idealo crawls websites to aggregate content from multiple sources. It is operated by Idealo internet GmbH as part of their content aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Idealo

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for idealo-bot 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 Idealo from crawling your entire site
User-agent: idealo-bot
Disallow: /

# Allow Idealo full access
User-agent: idealo-bot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows idealo-bot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Idealo internet GmbH's documentation.