Overview
Hype Machine is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Hype Machine; a representative HTTP user-agent is Hype Machine/4.0 hypem.com (anthony@hypem.com).
Hype Machine is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Hype Machine can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
Hype Machine- HTTP Agent Examples
Hype Machine/4.0 hypem.com (anthony@hypem.com)- Robots.txt Token
Hype Machine- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Hype Machine` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Hype Machine
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Hype Machine is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- Hype Machine traffic is primarily detected by the `Hype Machine` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Hype Machine/4.0 hypem.com (anthony@hypem.com)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Hype Machine 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
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.