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SkroutzBot

Name: SkroutzBot
Author: Skroutz S.A.

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Skroutz uses SkroutzBot web crawler to download XML feeds. Operated by Skroutz S.A..

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is SkroutzBot?

SkroutzBot is a web crawler operated by Skroutz S.A.. Skroutz uses SkroutzBot web crawler to download XML feeds.

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

Identification

Bot name

SkroutzBot

Operator

Skroutz S.A.

Why it crawls your site

SkroutzBot crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Skroutz S.A. as part of their feed aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow SkroutzBot

Block it

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

# Allow SkroutzBot full access
User-agent: SkroutzBot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows SkroutzBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Skroutz S.A.'s documentation.