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SirdataBot

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Brand safety and content classification for Ads Operated by Sirdata SAS.

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Assessment
Advertising & Marketing
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is SirdataBot?

SirdataBot is operated by the French ad-tech company Sirdata SAS. It functions as a component of their contextual advertising platform, which analyzes web page content to provide relevant ad targeting without relying on third-party cookies. The bot is designed to index page text and metadata, allowing the platform to categorize content and serve ads that align with the specific context of the article or page being visited.

Helpful — It is a transparent, documented bot that respects robots.txt and is used by publishers to enable contextual ad targeting.

Identification

Bot name
SirdataBot
Operator
Sirdata SAS
Category
Advertising & Marketing
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
sirdatabot
User-agent patterns
SirdataBot
User-agent string
SirdataBot (+https://semantic-api.docs.sirdata.net/contextual-api/contextual-api/introduction)
Main use cases
Contextual advertising analysisWebsite content categorizationAd-tech data enrichment
Rated Sep 23, 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
Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls websites to build a semantic understanding of the content, which is then used to power Sirdata's contextual API. By analyzing the page structure and text, the bot helps publishers improve ad relevance and performance. It is designed to be respectful of server resources, supports robots.txt directives, and provides clear documentation for site administrators to manage its access or whitelist its IP ranges.

Block or allow SirdataBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for SirdataBot 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 SirdataBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: SirdataBot
Disallow: /

# Allow SirdataBot full access
User-agent: SirdataBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows SirdataBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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From the community

Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.

Links & references

Sirdata SAS documentation
www.sirdata.com
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Cloudflare Radar: SirdataBot
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026

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