AgoraFCBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTReads public article pages about São Paulo FC to write short summaries that credit and link the source. Operated by Tricolor Agora.
What is AgoraFCBot?
AgoraFCBot is a dedicated web crawler developed by Tricolor Agora, a news aggregation platform focused on São Paulo Futebol Clube. Unlike general-purpose AI crawlers, this bot is designed to fetch news articles from various publishers to generate summaries for its platform. It operates with high transparency, identifying itself via a specific User-Agent and utilizing cryptographic signatures to verify its identity to site administrators.
Identification
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Crawler without limits: Perplexity ignores robots.txt | heise online
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- 9 Robots.txt Rules Googlebot Ignores Even If You Add Them to Your File
- Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO
- The Major Companies and Media Outlets Blocking OpenAI's Crawler GPTBot - Business Insider
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls websites to gather the latest news and updates regarding the São Paulo Futebol Clube, which are then processed to create summaries for the Tricolor Agora website. It is configured to respect robots.txt directives, allowing site owners to easily opt-out of being crawled. Furthermore, the operator explicitly states that the bot does not use the collected data for AI model training, distinguishing it from aggressive AI scrapers.
Block or allow AgoraFCBot
Add a Disallow rule for AgoraFCBot 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 AgoraFCBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: AgoraFCBot Disallow: / # Allow AgoraFCBot full access User-agent: AgoraFCBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows AgoraFCBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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