Overview
Coveo Bot is an ecommerce crawler from Coveo used for product discovery, catalog checks, marketplace crawling, price monitoring, and merchant data review.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Coveobot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) (compatible; Coveobot/2.0;+http://www.coveo.com/bot.html).
Coveo Bot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
Coveo Bot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Coveo Bot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
Coveobot- Aliases
- Coveobot
- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) (compatible; Coveobot/2.0;+http://www.coveo.com/bot.html)- Robots.txt Token
Coveobot- Identity Type
- Verified Bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify Coveo Bot by matching `Coveobot` to Coveo evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Ecommerce
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Coveo
- Purpose
- ecommerce
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Coveo Bot is used for product discovery, catalog checks, marketplace crawling, price monitoring, and merchant data review.
- Detection Notes
- Coveo Bot traffic is primarily detected by the `Coveobot` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) (compatible; Coveobot/2.0;+http://www.coveo.com/bot.html)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Coveo infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Coveo Bot 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
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.