About this bot
sourcedash is an automated identity associated with Source Dashboard and used for crawling property listings for Source Dashboard search and discovery.
The primary recorded identity signal is sourcedash. Representative HTTP identity: sourcedash/1.0 (+https://www.sourcedashboard.co.uk/spiderbot/).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: signed-agent.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under sourcedash.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
-
sourcedashsourcedash/1.0 (+https://www.sourcedashboard.co.uk/spiderbot/)sourcedash/1.0 - Also known as
- sourcedash/1.0; Source Dashboard spiderbot
Details
- Kind
- Vertical search crawler
- Family
- sourcedash
- Purpose
- Property search indexing
- Common Use
- property-listing discovery and vertical search indexing
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Signed agent
- Evidence Method
- Authenticate signed sourcedash requests using the crawler's published signing key material when needed; use `sourcedash/1.0` and its robots token as secondary signals.
- Detection Notes
- Signed-request verification is stronger than the User-Agent and should be preferred for trust decisions.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: sourcedash Disallow: /- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "sourcedash" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "sourcedash") { set $bot_match 1; }