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Shopify-Captain-Hook

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Shopify-Captain-Hook is a system used by Shopify to deliver webhooks. It sends automated messages to a user's server when specific events occur within their Shopify store. Operated by Shopify.

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Assessment

Webhooks

What is Shopify-Captain-Hook?

Shopify-Captain-Hook is a web crawler operated by Shopify. Shopify-Captain-Hook is a system used by Shopify to deliver webhooks. It sends automated messages to a user's server when specific events occur within their Shopify store.

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

Identification

Bot name

Shopify-Captain-Hook

Operator

Shopify

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

Shopify-Captain-Hook crawls websites to deliver webhook payloads and verify endpoints. It is operated by Shopify 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 Shopify-Captain-Hook

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Shopify-Captain-Hook 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 Shopify-Captain-Hook from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Shopify-Captain-Hook
Disallow: /

# Allow Shopify-Captain-Hook full access
User-agent: Shopify-Captain-Hook
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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