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PergelBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTFeed fetcher for Pergel, a Turkish news app. Reads public RSS feeds and sitemaps, obeys robots.txt, single fixed IP.
Identification
Bot name
PergelBot
Category
Feed Fetcher
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
pergelbot
User-agent patterns
PergelBotUser-agent string
PergelBot/1.0 (+https://pergelapp.com/bot)
Rated Oct 25, 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
- Perplexity AI ignores no-crawling rules on websites, crawls them anyway | Malwarebytes
- Googlebot ignores robots.txt
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- 9 Robots.txt Rules Googlebot Ignores Even If You Add Them to Your File
- The Major Companies and Media Outlets Blocking OpenAI's Crawler GPTBot - Business Insider
Block or allow PergelBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for PergelBot 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 PergelBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: PergelBot Disallow: / # Allow PergelBot full access User-agent: PergelBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows PergelBot. 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.
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Last updated October 25, 2026
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