About this bot
CriteoBot is associated with Criteo and used for contextual advertising analysis.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is CriteoBot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence.
It is documented to honor applicable robots.txt directives using CriteoBot.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
-
CriteoBotCriteoBot/0.1 (+https://www.criteo.com/criteo-crawler/) - Also known as
- CriteoBot/
Details
- Kind
- Advertising crawler
- Family
- Criteo
- Purpose
- Contextual advertising analysis
- Common Use
- Analyzes public page content on publisher domains where Criteo is asked to deliver ads, assigning contextual content categories.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Match `CriteoBot/0.1` and corroborate with Criteo's published network ownership/ranges.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `CriteoBot` User-Agent token and consider recorded aliases where applicable. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: CriteoBot Disallow: /