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HejResearchBot
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Identification
Bot name
HejResearchBot
Category
Other
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
hejresearchbot
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
Not stated
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
- Robots.txt vs. AI Blockers: Managing Who Scrapes Your Content
- Where did Perplexity say they would obey robots.txt? They explicitly document th... | Hacker News
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Does Robots.txt Matter Anymore? - Plagiarism Today
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them)
Block or allow HejResearchBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for HejResearchBot 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 HejResearchBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: HejResearchBot Disallow: / # Allow HejResearchBot full access User-agent: HejResearchBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows HejResearchBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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Data sources
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Last updated October 25, 2026
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