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Datenbank Crawler

Datenbank Crawler is a bot operated by Datenbank that crawls pages into a dataset that may be reused or shared with third parties. Datenbank Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by Datenbank. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.

DatenbankClaim onlyrobots.txt:No policy

Live check

Verify an IP that claimed to be Datenbank Crawler

No operator check exists for Datenbank Crawler. This still shows what the address really is.

Reference

Datenbank Crawler at a glance

Reference data for the Datenbank Crawler crawler
User agentDatenbank Crawler

Token only: match on the substring.

OperatorDatenbank
PurposeDataset builders
Respects robots.txtNo policy
Verification methodClaim onlyNone published, user agent only

No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof.

Crawl patternNot published
Robots.txt tokensDatenbank Crawler
Operator documentationNone published

Datenbank Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by Datenbank. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

robots.txt

Allow or block Datenbank Crawler

Paste one at the root of your domain. Rules are per token.

Block Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /
Allow Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Allow: /
Allow, except the pages you never want quoted
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /search

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking Datenbank Crawler keeps your pages out of the datasets it builds from future crawls. It does not remove anything collected earlier, and how each operator uses or shares its data varies, so check their policy.

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FAQ

Datenbank Crawler questions

What is Datenbank Crawler?

Datenbank Crawler is a bot operated by Datenbank that crawls pages into a dataset that may be reused or shared with third parties. Datenbank Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by Datenbank. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.

Does Datenbank Crawler respect robots.txt?

Not documented. No operator statement says whether Datenbank Crawler reads robots.txt, so add the rule but verify in your logs that the requests actually stop.

How do I verify a request really came from Datenbank Crawler?

You cannot, at least not from the request itself. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.

How do I block Datenbank Crawler?

Add the Datenbank Crawler token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.

Will blocking Datenbank Crawler hurt my search rankings?

Blocking Datenbank Crawler keeps your pages out of the datasets it builds from future crawls. It does not remove anything collected earlier, and how each operator uses or shares its data varies, so check their policy.

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