Overview
Creobot is a link preview bot from creoline GmbH used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Creobot; related patterns include creobot; creoline CDN bot.
Creobot 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.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Creobot should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
Creobot- Aliases
- creobot; creoline CDN bot
- HTTP Agent Examples
Creobot- Robots.txt Token
Creobot- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Creobot` 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
- Page Preview
- Kind
- Page Preview
- Family
- Creobot
- Purpose
- origin-asset-fetching
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Creobot is used for link unfurling, rich-card generation, social previews, messaging previews, and page metadata fetching.
- Detection Notes
- Creobot traffic is primarily detected by the `Creobot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `creobot; creoline CDN bot`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with creoline GmbH infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Creobot 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
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.