Overview
CoostiBot is an aggregator from Coosti ApS used for product discovery, catalog checks, marketplace crawling, price monitoring, and merchant data review.
Its primary user-agent pattern is CoostiBot; related patterns include CoostiBot/1.0; Coosti price comparison crawler.
CoostiBot 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.
CoostiBot is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
CoostiBot should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
CoostiBot belongs to the Coosti bot family.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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CoostiBot - Aliases
- CoostiBot/1.0; Coosti price comparison crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
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CoostiBot - Robots Token
- CoostiBot
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `CoostiBot` 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
- Aggregator
- Kind
- Aggregator
- Family
- Coosti
- Purpose
- Product price comparison
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- CoostiBot is used for product discovery, catalog checks, marketplace crawling, price monitoring, and merchant data review.
- Detection Notes
- CoostiBot traffic is primarily detected by the `CoostiBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `CoostiBot/1.0; Coosti price comparison crawler`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Coosti ApS infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- CoostiBot 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
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User-agent: CoostiBot Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Coosti ApS 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.