Overview
Shareaholic is an automated identity associated with Shareaholic and used for Fetching titles, thumbnails, excerpts, and related public page metadata for Shareaholic content features..
The primary recorded identity signal is Shareaholic. Representative HTTP identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Shareaholic/1.0; +http://www.shareaholic.com/steve).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under Shareaholic.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: depends.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Shareaholic - Aliases
- Steve Bot; Shareaholic/1.0
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Shareaholic/1.0; +http://www.shareaholic.com/steve) - Robots Token
- Shareaholic
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the Shareaholic/1.0 Steve Bot identity and corroborate with Shareaholic-published source-network information.
Classification
- Type
- Preview
- Kind
- Content metadata fetcher
- Family
- Shareaholic
- Purpose
- Content preview and metadata fetching
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Fetching titles, thumbnails, excerpts, and related public page metadata for Shareaholic content features.
- Detection Notes
- Steve Bot identifies itself with Shareaholic/1.0 and is used to retrieve page metadata for Shareaholic features.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The Shareaholic User-Agent can be copied. Corroborate with Shareaholic-controlled source-network information when authenticity matters.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: Shareaholic Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Shareaholic" bot_match - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "Shareaholic") { set $bot_match 1; }