About this bot
Vercatus is a audit crawler associated with Vercatus and used for ai and search visibility auditing.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is Vercatus. Representative HTTP request identity: Vercatus/1.0 (+https://vercatus.com/crawler).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: http message signature.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under Vercatus.
Risk classification: Neutral. Evaluate the request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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VercatusVercatus/1.0 (+https://vercatus.com/crawler)
Details
- Kind
- Audit crawler
- Family
- Vercatus
- Purpose
- AI and search visibility auditing
- Common Use
- owner-requested analysis of how automated search and AI systems can access and interpret a website
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- HTTP message signature
- Evidence Method
- Use `Vercatus` to identify candidate traffic, then validate the cryptographic request identity when a signed request is available.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `Vercatus` User-Agent token. Prefer the signed request identity when present.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Vercatus Disallow: /