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PrintFriendly

Name: PrintFriendly
Author: PrintFriendly.com

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Extract Content to Show Print Friendly version. Publishers typically embed our button - https://www.printfriendly.com/button - so that their visitors can view a Print Friendly Page and/or create a PDF Operated by PrintFriendly.com.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Webhooks

What is PrintFriendly?

PrintFriendly is a web crawler operated by PrintFriendly.com. Extract Content to Show Print Friendly version. Publishers typically embed our button - https://www.printfriendly.com/button - so that their visitors can view a Print Friendly Page and/or create a PDF

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

Identification

Bot name

PrintFriendly

Operator

PrintFriendly.com

Why it crawls your site

PrintFriendly crawls websites to deliver webhook payloads and verify endpoints. It is operated by PrintFriendly.com as part of their webhook delivery infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow PrintFriendly

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for PrintFriendly.com 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 PrintFriendly from crawling your entire site
User-agent: PrintFriendly.com
Disallow: /

# Allow PrintFriendly full access
User-agent: PrintFriendly.com
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows PrintFriendly.com. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to PrintFriendly.com's documentation.