Bot intelligence record
Shap User
Review firstShap User is an AI crawler from Shap used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval; it appears in server logs as `Shap-User`.
User-Agent Pattern
ShapShap-User
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
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Handling Guidance
DependsUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
Shap User is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Shap
- Family
- Shap
- Type
- Ai
- Purpose
- Ai Assistant
- Identity type
- Observed
- Confidence
- Low
- Last verified
- 2026-06-20
- Last checked
- 2026-06-20
- Source type
- Observed
- Verification
- Verify Shap User by matching `Shap-User` to Shap evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- Shap User has high spoofing risk because the pattern is low-confidence or observation-based; do not trust the user-agent by itself.
Notes
- Shap User is an AI crawler from Shap used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Shap-User. - Shap User is not independently verified with Low confidence. The identity type is Observed, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
- Shap User does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
- Shap User should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Evidence and Source
- Verify Shap User by matching `Shap-User` to Shap evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Shap User traffic is primarily detected by the `Shap-User` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Shap infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Shap User is used for assistant-driven browsing, page retrieval, and automated web access on behalf of an AI product.
- Shap User has high spoofing risk because the pattern is low-confidence or observation-based; do not trust the user-agent by itself.
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