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LockleyBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTReads public company websites to describe what a business sells/who buys it. ≤12 pages per site, 1 request/second.
Identification
Bot name
LockleyBot
Category
Academic Research
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
lockleybot
Rated Oct 22, 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
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- 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
- Crawler without limits: Perplexity ignores robots.txt | heise online
- robots.txt for AI Crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot and More
Block or allow LockleyBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for LockleyBot 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 LockleyBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: LockleyBot Disallow: / # Allow LockleyBot full access User-agent: LockleyBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows LockleyBot. 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 25, 2026
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