Does Sidetrade indexer bot respect robots.txt?

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

How do I block Sidetrade indexer bot?

Add the Sidetrade indexer 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.

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Sidetrade indexer bot

Q: How do I verify a request really came from Sidetrade indexer 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.

Sidetrade indexer bot is a bot operated by Sidetrade that collects pages used to train AI models. AI product training. 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.

Sidetrade indexer bot at a glance

Reference data for the Sidetrade indexer bot crawler
User agent	`Sidetrade indexer bot` Token only. The operator has not published a full user-agent string, so match on the substring rather than an exact header.
Operator	Sidetrade
Purpose	Extracts data for a variety of uses including training AI.
Respects robots.txt	Not documented
Verification method	None 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 pattern	Not published
Robots.txt tokens	`Sidetrade indexer bot`
Operator documentation	None published

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robots.txt

Allow or block Sidetrade indexer bot

Paste one of these into the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Rules are per token, so a block on one crawler leaves every other bot untouched.

Block Sidetrade indexer bot

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Disallow: /

Blocks every path for this crawler only.

Allow Sidetrade indexer bot

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Allow: /

Explicit allow. Useful when a wildcard rule above it would otherwise catch this crawler.

Allow, except the pages you never want quoted

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /search

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own account, checkout and search URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking Sidetrade indexer bot keeps your pages out of the next training run. It does not remove anything already collected, and it has no effect on how the site ranks in ordinary search.

Block every crawler in the directory at once

Verification

Is that really Sidetrade indexer bot?

A user-agent header is a string the client chooses. Scrapers copy Sidetrade indexer bot precisely because site owners allow it. 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.

Paste the IP address from your access log below. You will see whether it belongs to a hosting provider, a residential proxy pool or a Tor exit, plus the ASN that announces it, which is what tells you whether the claim holds up.

Datacenter IP detectionNearly every real AI crawler egresses from cloud ranges. A residential IP claiming to be one is the first thing to check.IP reputation checkSee whether the address behind a fake crawler hit has a history of abuse elsewhere.Residential proxy detectionScrapers that get blocked by user agent often come back through residential proxy pools.

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