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MarketfaunaBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTWeekly research collector for the Bot Barometer index: two public JSON APIs, once a week, no page crawling.
Identification
Bot name
MarketfaunaBot
Category
Academic Research
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
marketfaunabot
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
- Googlebot ignores robots.txt
- Perplexity AI ignores no-crawling rules on websites, crawls them anyway | Malwarebytes
- Crawler without limits: Perplexity ignores robots.txt | heise online
- 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
Block or allow MarketfaunaBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for MarketfaunaBot 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 MarketfaunaBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: MarketfaunaBot Disallow: / # Allow MarketfaunaBot full access User-agent: MarketfaunaBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows MarketfaunaBot. 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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