TurnitinBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTTurnitin.com offers various services to the educational community. Most prominently, we provide a widely used and effective plagiarism detection service. Part of the plagiarism prevention service relies on comparing student papers to content found on the Internet. Since we do not know ahead of time which pages on the Internet a student will use we need to gather them all for comparison. However, we do have automated ways of throwing away content and links that would be irrelevant to our service. Operated by Turnitin.
What is TurnitinBot?
TurnitinBot is a web crawler operated by Turnitin. Turnitin.com offers various services to the educational community. Most prominently, we provide a widely used and effective plagiarism detection service. Part of the plagiarism prevention service relies on comparing student papers to content found on the Internet. Since we do not know ahead of time which pages on the Internet a student will use we need to gather them all for comparison. However, we do have automated ways of throwing away content and links that would be irrelevant to our service.
Identification
TurnitinHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
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Why it crawls your site
TurnitinBot crawls websites to collect data for academic and scientific research. It is operated by Turnitin as part of their academic research infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow TurnitinBot
Add a Disallow rule for Turnitin 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 TurnitinBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Turnitin Disallow: / # Allow TurnitinBot full access User-agent: Turnitin Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Turnitin. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Turnitin's documentation.
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