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PhilosophicalProgressBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTCrawler for philosophicalprogress.org, a free, non-commercial index of new philosophy papers.
Identification
Bot name
PhilosophicalProgressBot
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
philosophicalprogressbot
User-agent patterns
PhilosophicalProgressBotUser-agent strings
PhilosophicalProgressBot/1.0 (+https://philosophicalprogress.org/bot)
philosophicalprogress/1.0 (+https://www.philosophicalprogress.org/bot) urllib/3.12
Rated Oct 30, 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
Block or allow PhilosophicalProgressBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for PhilosophicalProgressBot 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 PhilosophicalProgressBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: PhilosophicalProgressBot Disallow: / # Allow PhilosophicalProgressBot full access User-agent: PhilosophicalProgressBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows PhilosophicalProgressBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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Last updated October 30, 2026
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