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Redactus Web Classifier

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Web classifier: fetches a site’s homepage to assign a category and rechecks periodically. Operated by Redactus.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Security

What is Redactus Web Classifier?

Redactus Web Classifier is a web crawler operated by Redactus. Web classifier: fetches a site’s homepage to assign a category and rechecks periodically.

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

Identification

Bot name

Redactus Web Classifier

Operator

Redactus

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

Redactus Web Classifier crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Redactus as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Redactus Web Classifier

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for RedactusWebClassifier 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 Redactus Web Classifier from crawling your entire site
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier
Disallow: /

# Allow Redactus Web Classifier full access
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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