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Project Honeypot

Name: Project Honeypot
Author: Unspam Technologies, Inc

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

Operator website ↗

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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

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.