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kb.dk_bot

Name: kb.dk_bot
Author: Netarkivet

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Royal Danish Library collects the Danish Internet according to the Danish Legal Deposit Act for research purposes. Operated by Netarkivet.

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Assessment

Academic Research

What is kb.dk_bot?

kb.dk_bot is a web crawler operated by Netarkivet. Royal Danish Library collects the Danish Internet according to the Danish Legal Deposit Act for research purposes.

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

Identification

Bot name

kb.dk_bot

Operator

Netarkivet

Why it crawls your site

kb.dk_bot crawls websites to collect data for academic and scientific research. It is operated by Netarkivet as part of their academic research infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow kb.dk_bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for netarkivindsamling 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 kb.dk_bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: netarkivindsamling
Disallow: /

# Allow kb.dk_bot full access
User-agent: netarkivindsamling
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows netarkivindsamling. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Netarkivet's documentation.