Bot intelligence record
Terracotta
Usually allowTerracotta is a web scraper from Ceramic used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring; it appears in server logs as `Terracotta`.
- Operator
- Ceramic
- Family
- Terracotta
- Type
- Scraper
- Source type
- Documented
- Last checked
- 2026-05-20
User-Agent Pattern
CeramicTerracotta
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: Terracotta
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Handling Guidance
DependsThis bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.
Terracotta is used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring, and third-party crawler activity.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Ceramic
- Family
- Terracotta
- Type
- Scraper
- Purpose
- Scraping
- Identity type
- Verified Bot
- Confidence
- Medium
- Last verified
- 2026-04-01
- Last checked
- 2026-05-20
- Source type
- Documented
- Verification
- Verify Terracotta by matching `Terracotta` to Ceramic evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- Terracotta has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Notes
- Terracotta is a web scraper from Ceramic used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring, and third-party crawler activity.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Terracotta; related patterns includeTerracotta-News; a representative HTTP user-agent isTerracotta Terracotta-News. - Terracotta is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
- Terracotta is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
- Terracotta can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Evidence and Source
- Verify Terracotta by matching `Terracotta` to Ceramic evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Terracotta traffic is primarily detected by the `Terracotta` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Terracotta-News`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Terracotta Terracotta-News`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Ceramic infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Terracotta is used for public web data collection, page extraction, content monitoring, and third-party crawler activity.
- Terracotta has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Monitor This Bot In Edge
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