Overview
Echobot Bot is a web scraper from Echobox used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring, and third-party crawler activity.
Its primary user-agent pattern is w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EchoboxBot/1.0; hash/w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; +http://www.echobox.com).
Echobot 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.
Echobot Bot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Echobot Bot 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 Pattern
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w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw - HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EchoboxBot/1.0; hash/w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; +http://www.echobox.com) - Robots Token
- w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify Echobot Bot by matching `w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw` to Echobox evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Scraper
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Echobox
- Purpose
- Scraping
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Echobot Bot is used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring, and third-party crawler activity.
- Detection Notes
- Echobot Bot traffic is primarily detected by the `w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EchoboxBot/1.0; hash/w4mwnpbXf3MFAbxOkJRw; +http://www.echobox.com)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Echobox infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Echobot Bot 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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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.
Relationships
- Operator
- Echobox Checked 2026-06-23
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.