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NostoCrawlerBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NostoCrawlerBot/1.0; +http://my.nosto.com/tagging) Operated by Nosto.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is NostoCrawlerBot?

NostoCrawlerBot is a web crawler operated by Nosto. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NostoCrawlerBot/1.0; +http://my.nosto.com/tagging)

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

Identification

Bot name

NostoCrawlerBot

Operator

Nosto

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

Why it crawls your site

NostoCrawlerBot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Nosto as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow NostoCrawlerBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for NostoCrawlerBot 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 NostoCrawlerBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: NostoCrawlerBot
Disallow: /

# Allow NostoCrawlerBot full access
User-agent: NostoCrawlerBot
Allow: /