Overview
Cludo is a search crawler used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is cludo.com; related patterns include Cludobot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; cludo.com bot) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3133.0 Safari/537.36.
Cludo 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.
Cludo is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
Cludo can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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cludo.com - Aliases
- Cludobot
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; cludo.com bot) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3133.0 Safari/537.36 - Robots Token
- cludo.com
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `cludo.com` 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
- Cludo
- Purpose
- Indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Cludo is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- Cludo traffic is primarily detected by the `cludo.com` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Cludobot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; cludo.com bot) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3133.0 Safari/537.36`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Cludo 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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User-agent: cludo.com Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Cludo 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.