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/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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