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WindlassBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Reads public pages of US property-management company sites, a few per site quarterly, to record size and software.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Academic Research

Identification

Bot name

WindlassBot

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

Block or allow WindlassBot

Block it

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

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