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Epivoz Crawler

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News aggregator needs to crawl news/blog articles to generate short summaries for page preview of attributed links. Operated by Techmeme.

Operator website ↗

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Assessment

Aggregator

What is Epivoz Crawler?

Epivoz Crawler is a web crawler operated by Techmeme. News aggregator needs to crawl news/blog articles to generate short summaries for page preview of attributed links.

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

Identification

Bot name

Epivoz Crawler

Operator

Techmeme

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

Epivoz Crawler crawls websites to aggregate content from multiple sources. It is operated by Techmeme as part of their content aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Epivoz Crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for EpivozCrawler/ 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 Epivoz Crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: EpivozCrawler/
Disallow: /

# Allow Epivoz Crawler full access
User-agent: EpivozCrawler/
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows EpivozCrawler/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Techmeme's documentation.