Overview
Freespoke is a search crawler used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is crawler.freespoke.com; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Freespoke/2.0; +https://crawler.freespoke.com).
Freespoke is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
Freespoke is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Freespoke can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
crawler.freespoke.com- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Freespoke/2.0; +https://crawler.freespoke.com)- Robots.txt Token
crawler.freespoke.com- Identity Type
- Verified Bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify Freespoke by matching `crawler.freespoke.com` to a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Freespoke
- Purpose
- indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Freespoke is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- Freespoke traffic is primarily detected by the `crawler.freespoke.com` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Freespoke/2.0; +https://crawler.freespoke.com)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Freespoke has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.