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SoothBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTSooth is a curated internet search engine designed for students. No Generative AI, just links back to your site.
Identification
Bot name
SoothBot
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
soothbot
Rated Oct 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
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence
What we read
- AI Web Crawler Bots Gone Wild! e.g. ClaudeBot, DotBot, PetalBot 🤖 - hacking - Lucee Dev
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- How to deal with AI crawlers that ignore robots.txt | Soups Ranjan posted on the topic | LinkedIn
- I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time. | Hacker News
- Robots.txt vs. AI Blockers: Managing Who Scrapes Your Content
Block or allow SoothBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for SoothBot 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 SoothBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: SoothBot Disallow: / # Allow SoothBot full access User-agent: SoothBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows SoothBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026
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