Overview
GuestpostsBot is a monitoring bot from Guest Posts used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is GuestpostsBot; related patterns include GuestpostsBot/; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GuestpostsBot/2.0; +https://guestposts.com.br/blog/robot/).
GuestpostsBot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
GuestpostsBot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
GuestpostsBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
GuestpostsBot- Aliases
- GuestpostsBot/
- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GuestpostsBot/2.0; +https://guestposts.com.br/blog/robot/)- Robots.txt Token
GuestpostsBot- Identity Type
- Verified Bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify GuestpostsBot by matching `GuestpostsBot` to Guest Posts evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Guest Posts
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- GuestpostsBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- GuestpostsBot traffic is primarily detected by the `GuestpostsBot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `GuestpostsBot/`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GuestpostsBot/2.0; +https://guestposts.com.br/blog/robot/)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Guest Posts infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- GuestpostsBot 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
- No
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.