Bot intelligence record

Artemis Web Crawler

Usually allow

Use the artemis-web-crawler identifier to separate Artemis feed fetching or subscription-style retrieval from normal visitor requests in server logs.

Feed Feed Fetch Verified Bot Confidence: Medium Verified: Yes robots.txt: Unknown
Operator
Artemis
Family
Artemis
Type
Feed
Source type
Verified Directory
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

Artemis
artemis-web-crawler
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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User-agent: artemis-web-crawler
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

Feed fetching, subscription updates, podcast retrieval, or content syndication checks.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Artemis
Family
Artemis
Type
Feed
Purpose
Feed Fetch
Identity type
Verified Bot
Confidence
Medium
Last verified
2026-04-19
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Verified Directory
Verification
Public verified bot directory listing
Spoofing risk
Medium

Notes

Artemis Web Crawler is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a feed retrieval bot from Artemis. The primary identifier for log review is artemis-web-crawler.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: artemis-web-crawler
  • Family: Artemis
  • Type: Feed
  • Kind: Fetcher

Common use

Feed fetching, subscription updates, podcast retrieval, or content syndication checks.

Verification and handling

Confirm the user-agent against server logs and use published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, or other trust signals when available.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Safe and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.

Robots.txt handling: Unknown.

Evidence and Source

  • Public verified bot directory listing
  • Match `artemis-web-crawler` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.
  • Feed fetching, subscription updates, podcast retrieval, or content syndication checks.
  • Medium

https://bots.fyi/d/artemis-web-crawler

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Operator and family: Wikimedia Foundation Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
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WMF Zotero Translation Server

WMF Zotero Translation Server is a feed retrieval bot from Wikimedia Foundation used to retrieve feeds, subscriptions, podcasts, or syndicated content.

Operator and family: Wikimedia Foundation Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
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Crawler to extract the newest articles in the publisher's website (via feed or parsing html) to make a carrousel with images, links and text for our native ads module in order to improve.

Operator and family: Digital Green Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot
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Operator and family: Skroutz S.A. Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot

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