About this bot
payroll-bot is a crawler associated with ADP and used for payroll legal regulatory research.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is AdpResearchBot.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as respecting robots.txt controls.
Collecting public payroll, employment, legal and regulatory documentation for compliance research.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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AdpResearchBotAdpResearchBot/1.0 - Also known as
- AdpResearchBot/
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- ADP
- Purpose
- Payroll legal regulatory research
- Common Use
- Collecting public payroll, employment, legal and regulatory documentation for compliance research.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `AdpResearchBot` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate with documented network, DNS, signature, or request-context signals when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `AdpResearchBot` User-Agent token and consider recorded aliases or request-context signals. A User-Agent match identifies a claim, not authenticated origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: AdpResearchBot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AdpResearchBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AdpResearchBot") { return 403; }