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OnticaBot

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Feed-fetching crawler that discovers and fetches public articles for curated content feeds Operated by Ontica.

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Assessment
Social Media Marketing
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is OnticaBot?

OnticaBot is a specialized crawler operated by Ontica, designed to scan the web for high-quality articles to populate curated content feeds. Unlike aggressive scrapers, it operates with a focus on transparency, adhering to standard web protocols like robots.txt and maintaining conservative crawl rates to avoid impacting server performance. The bot is primarily used to power content discovery engines, ensuring that users receive relevant and timely information through Ontica's aggregation services.

Helpful — The bot explicitly respects robots.txt, uses conservative request rates, and provides a clear opt-out mechanism for site owners.

Identification

Bot name
OnticaBot
Operator
Ontica
Category
Social Media Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
onticabot-2
User-agent patterns
OnticaBot
User-agent string
OnticaBot/1.0 (+https://ontica.com.au/bot)
Main use cases
Content discovery for curated feedsArticle indexing and summarizationSocial media content aggregation
Rated Sep 23, 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

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls the web to identify and index publicly accessible articles that meet specific quality criteria for inclusion in Ontica's curated feeds. By fetching this content, the system can generate summaries and organize information for its users, effectively acting as a discovery layer for web content. Site owners can verify the bot's activity via its unique User-Agent string and can manage its access or request removal by contacting the support email provided on the official OnticaBot documentation page.

Block or allow OnticaBot

Block it

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

# Allow OnticaBot full access
User-agent: OnticaBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows OnticaBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Links & references

Ontica documentation
ontica.com.au
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Cloudflare Radar: OnticaBot
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/onticabot-2
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026

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