Overview
Retool is an ecommerce crawler used for product discovery, catalog checks, marketplace crawling, price monitoring, and merchant data review.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Retool; related patterns include Retool/; a representative HTTP user-agent is Retool/2.0 (+https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/apis).
Retool is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
Retool is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Retool should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Retool - Aliases
- Retool/
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Retool/2.0 (+https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/apis) - Robots Token
- Retool
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify Retool by matching `Retool` to a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Classification
- Type
- Ecommerce
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Retool
- Purpose
- Ecommerce
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Retool is used for product discovery, catalog checks, marketplace crawling, price monitoring, and merchant data review.
- Detection Notes
- Retool traffic is primarily detected by the `Retool` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Retool/`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Retool/2.0 (+https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/apis)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Retool has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.
Relationships
- Operator
- Retool Checked 2026-06-23
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.