Overview
ToolRancherBot is a shopping-comparison crawler operated by ToolRancher.
It identifies as ToolRancherBot/1.0 (+https://toolrancher.com/bot; hello@toolrancher.com) and uses ToolRancherBot as its robots.txt token.
The crawler reads public product, category, sitemap, price, stock, and product-detail pages. It honors robots.txt, Crawl-delay, rate limits, and blocking responses.
The identity is verified with High confidence from current operator documentation; corroborate the token with source and behavior when authentication matters.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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ToolRancherBot - Aliases
- ToolRancherBot/1.0
- HTTP Agent Examples
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ToolRancherBot/1.0 (+https://toolrancher.com/bot; hello@toolrancher.com) - Robots Token
- ToolRancherBot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `ToolRancherBot` token to current operator documentation, then corroborate source and crawl behavior when stronger trust is required.
Classification
- Type
- Shopping
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- ToolRancher
- Purpose
- Product price indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Refreshes public product, price, availability, and retailer listing information for tool-comparison pages.
- Detection Notes
- Detect by `ToolRancherBot`. The documented crawler does not disguise itself as a browser and honors robots.txt, Crawl-delay, rate limits, and blocking responses.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- The user-agent can be copied; corroborate with source and crawl behavior before granting trust.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: ToolRancherBot Disallow: / - Apache Rule
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "ToolRancherBot" [NC] RewriteRule ^ - [F,L] - Nginx Rule
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if ($http_user_agent ~* "ToolRancherBot") { return 403; }
Relationships
- Operator
- ToolRancher Checked 2026-09-02
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.