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PhindBot

Fetches a page when someone asks Phind a question. Here is how to recognise it, verify it, and allow or block it.

Company: Phind
Product: Phind
Why it visits: Answering someone right now
How to verify: Name only
User-agent contains: PhindBot

How to tell a real PhindBot from a fake

Phind publishes no IP list and no DNS names for PhindBot, so a visit can’t be proven real. Anyone can put “PhindBot” in a user-agent. Treat it as unverified, and watch how much it crawls.

Check a PhindBot visit

Allow or block PhindBot in robots.txt

Block it everywhere:

User-agent: PhindBot Disallow: /

Allow it everywhere:

User-agent: PhindBot Allow: /

This bot fetches pages for people asking Phind right now. Blocking it can stop your pages being opened or cited in its answers. Fake bots ignore robots.txt: block them by address in your firewall instead.