Overview
SkroutzBot is a feed fetcher from Skroutz S.A. used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is SkroutzBot; a representative HTTP user-agent is SkroutzBot v1.0.
SkroutzBot is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
SkroutzBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
SkroutzBot- HTTP Agent Examples
SkroutzBot v1.0- Robots.txt Token
SkroutzBot- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `SkroutzBot` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Feed
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Skroutz S.A.
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- SkroutzBot is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Detection Notes
- SkroutzBot traffic is primarily detected by the `SkroutzBot` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `SkroutzBot v1.0`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Skroutz S.A. infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- SkroutzBot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.