Overview
CitibotSiteCrawler is a search crawler from Citibot used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is CitibotSiteCrawler; a representative HTTP user-agent is CitibotSiteCrawler/1.0.
CitibotSiteCrawler 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.
CitibotSiteCrawler should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
CitibotSiteCrawler- HTTP Agent Examples
CitibotSiteCrawler/1.0- Robots.txt Token
CitibotSiteCrawler- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `CitibotSiteCrawler` 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
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- CitibotSiteCrawler
- Purpose
- indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- CitibotSiteCrawler is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- CitibotSiteCrawler traffic is primarily detected by the `CitibotSiteCrawler` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `CitibotSiteCrawler/1.0`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Citibot infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- CitibotSiteCrawler has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.