ShapBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTShapBot helps discover and index websites for Parallel's web APIs. Operated by Parallel.
What is ShapBot?
ShapBot is a web crawler operated by Parallel. ShapBot helps discover and index websites for Parallel's web APIs.
Identification
ShapBot/How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- The Major Companies and Media Outlets Blocking OpenAI's Crawler GPTBot - Business Insider
- What Is a robots.txt File? (And When To Use One)
- Known Agents Review: Google Analytics for Bots | Agent Finder
- HUMAN and TollBit Empower Websites with Robust Bot Management and Content Monetization Solutions for AI Agents
Why it crawls your site
ShapBot crawls websites to index and analyze web content for AI-powered search results. It is operated by Parallel as part of their AI-powered search infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow ShapBot
Add a Disallow rule for ShapBot/ 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 ShapBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: ShapBot/ Disallow: / # Allow ShapBot full access User-agent: ShapBot/ Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows ShapBot/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Parallel's documentation.
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