Overview
catchpoint is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Catchpoint; related patterns include Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03D; Catchpoint) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19.
catchpoint is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
catchpoint can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Catchpoint - Aliases
- Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03D; Catchpoint) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Catchpoint) Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03D; Catchpoint) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Catchpoint) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36 - Robots Token
- Catchpoint
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Catchpoint` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Catchpoint
- Purpose
- Monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- catchpoint is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- catchpoint traffic is primarily detected by the `Catchpoint` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.1.1; Nexus 7 Build/JRO03D; Catchpoint) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Safari/535.19`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- catchpoint has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.
Relationships
- Operator
- Catchpoint Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.