Dataset builders

Echobot Bot

Echobot Bot is a bot operated by Echobox that crawls pages into a dataset that may be reused or shared with third parties. Echobot Bot is an AI data scraper operated by Echobox. 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.

EchoboxClaim onlyrobots.txt:No policy

Live check

Verify an IP that claimed to be Echobot Bot

No operator check exists for Echobot Bot. This still shows what the address really is.

Reference

Echobot Bot at a glance

Reference data for the Echobot Bot crawler
User agentEchobot Bot

Token only: match on the substring.

OperatorEchobox
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 tokensEchobot Bot
Operator documentationNone published

Echobot Bot is an AI data scraper operated by Echobox. 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 Echobot Bot

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

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

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking Echobot Bot 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

Echobot Bot questions

What is Echobot Bot?

Echobot Bot is a bot operated by Echobox that crawls pages into a dataset that may be reused or shared with third parties. Echobot Bot is an AI data scraper operated by Echobox. 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 Echobot Bot respect robots.txt?

Not documented. No operator statement says whether Echobot Bot 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 Echobot Bot?

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 Echobot Bot?

Add the Echobot Bot 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 Echobot Bot hurt my search rankings?

Blocking Echobot Bot 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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