Overview
WormlyBot is a monitoring bot from Wormly used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is WormlyBot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WormlyBot; +http://wormly.com).
WormlyBot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
WormlyBot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
WormlyBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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WormlyBot - HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WormlyBot; +http://wormly.com) - Robots Token
- WormlyBot
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify WormlyBot by matching `WormlyBot` to Wormly evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Wormly
- Purpose
- Monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- WormlyBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- WormlyBot traffic is primarily detected by the `WormlyBot` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WormlyBot; +http://wormly.com)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Wormly infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- WormlyBot 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
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.
Relationships
- Operator
- Wormly Checked 2026-06-23
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.