Direqt Anomura
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Direqt Anomura

Anomura is Direqt's AI-search crawler identity. V17 preserves the documented UA but removes the unsupported claim that it ignores robots.txt.

Operator Direqt

About this bot

Direqt Anomura is associated with Direqt and used for ai search indexing.

The primary identifying User-Agent token is Anomura. Representative HTTP request identity: Anomura/1.2 (+https://www.direqt.ai).

Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence.

robots.txt behavior: unknown.

Discovers and indexes publisher pages for Direqt AI-search and content-discovery experiences.

How to identify this bot

User-agent and crawler identifiers
Anomura Anomura/1.2 (+https://www.direqt.ai)
Also known as
Anomura/1.2; Direqt Anomura Direqt Anomura

Details

Kind
Crawler
Family
Direqt
Purpose
AI search indexing
Common Use
Discovers and indexes publisher pages for Direqt AI-search and content-discovery experiences.
Respects robots.txt
Unknown

Verification

Identity Type
Verified bot
Evidence Method
Match the documented `Anomura` identity as a claim and corroborate important decisions through operator-controlled request/network signals when available.
Detection Notes
Anomura is associated with Direqt's AI-search discovery/indexing. Current public identity evidence supports the UA, but robots compliance is not asserted here without stronger operator documentation.
Website controls
Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is not sufficiently established. Use server-side controls when deterministic restriction is required.
Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Anomura" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]
Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Anomura") { return 403; }

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