Bot intelligence record
Siteliner
Usually allowSiteliner is a search crawler used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness; it appears in server logs as `Siteliner`.
User-Agent Pattern
SitelinerSiteliner
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
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: Siteliner
Disallow: /
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Handling Guidance
NoThis bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.
Siteliner is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Record Details
Verified fields- Operator
- Siteliner
- Family
- Siteliner
- Type
- Search
- Purpose
- Site Quality Audit
- Identity type
- Official Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Last verified
- 2026-06-02
- Last checked
- 2026-06-02
- Source type
- Official
- Verification
- Verify Siteliner by matching `Siteliner` to official operator documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
- Spoofing risk
- Siteliner has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Notes
- Siteliner is a search crawler used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Siteliner; related patterns includeMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Siteliner/1.0; +http://www.siteliner.com/bot); a representative HTTP user-agent isMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Siteliner/1.0; +http://www.siteliner.com/bot). - Siteliner is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
- Siteliner is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
- Siteliner can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Evidence and Source
- Verify Siteliner by matching `Siteliner` to official operator documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
- Siteliner traffic is primarily detected by the `Siteliner` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Siteliner/1.0; +http://www.siteliner.com/bot)`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Siteliner/1.0; +http://www.siteliner.com/bot)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Siteliner is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Siteliner has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
Use This Signal In Edge
Botcrawl EdgeUse Edge to match live requests, detect related datacenter traffic, and apply allow, block, rate-limit, or log rules.
