Overview
ContentKing is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is contentking; a representative HTTP user-agent is (+https://whatis.contentkingapp.com).
ContentKing is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
ContentKing is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
ContentKing can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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contentking - Aliases
- contentking
- HTTP Agent Examples
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(+https://whatis.contentkingapp.com) - Robots Token
- contentking
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify ContentKing by matching `contentking` to a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- ContentKing
- Purpose
- Monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- ContentKing is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- ContentKing traffic is primarily detected by the `contentking` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `(+https://whatis.contentkingapp.com)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- ContentKing 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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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.
Relationships
- Operator
- ContentKing Checked 2026-06-23
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.