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Project Honeypot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

We use Project Honeypot for IP info. Operated by Unspam Technologies, Inc.

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Assessment

Security

What is Project Honeypot?

Project Honeypot is a web crawler operated by Unspam Technologies, Inc. We use Project Honeypot for IP info.

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

Identification

Bot name

Project Honeypot

Operator

Unspam Technologies, Inc

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

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Project Honeypot crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Unspam Technologies, Inc as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Project Honeypot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Verispider 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 Project Honeypot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Verispider
Disallow: /

# Allow Project Honeypot full access
User-agent: Verispider
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Verispider. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Unspam Technologies, Inc's documentation.