About this bot
FintelBot is a crawler associated with Fintel Connect and used for financial product monitoring.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is FintelBot. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FintelBot/1.0; +https://fintelconnect.com/crawler-info).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under FintelBot.
Risk classification: Neutral. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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FintelBotMozilla/5.0 (compatible; FintelBot/1.0; +https://fintelconnect.com/crawler-info)
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Fintel Connect
- Purpose
- Financial product monitoring
- Common Use
- monitoring public financial product, offer, and publisher pages
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `FintelBot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with independent network, DNS, cryptographic, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `FintelBot` User-Agent token. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: FintelBot Disallow: /