About this bot
ConsentCheck Bot is associated with ConsentCheck and used for consent privacy scanning.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is ConsentCheckBot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence.
It is documented to honor applicable robots.txt directives using consentcheck.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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ConsentCheckBotMozilla/5.0 (compatible; ConsentCheckBot/1.0; +https://consentcheck.site/bot)consentcheck - Also known as
- consentcheck
Details
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- ConsentCheck
- Purpose
- Consent privacy scanning
- Common Use
- Consent and privacy compliance scanning.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Signed agent
- Evidence Method
- Verify `ConsentCheckBot/1.0` plus its HTTP Message Signature against the operator-published Web Bot Auth key directory.
- Detection Notes
- Identify candidate traffic using the signed-agent identity and HTTP message-signature fields. Treat unsigned lookalike requests as unconfirmed.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: consentcheck Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ConsentCheckBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ConsentCheckBot") { return 403; }