About this bot
WRTNBot is a crawler associated with Wrtn and used for ai search and retrieval.
Primary directory identity signal: WRTNBot. Representative HTTP identity: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; WRTNBot/1.0; +https://wrtn.ai/WRTNBot).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under WRTNBot. Site-specific access policy should still be evaluated before enforcement.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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WRTNBotMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; WRTNBot/1.0; +https://wrtn.ai/WRTNBot)Mozilla/5.0 ... WRTNBot/1.0; +https://wrtn.ai/WRTNBot - Also known as
- WRTNBot/1.0; Wrtn Bot
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Wrtn
- Purpose
- AI search and retrieval
- Common Use
- Retrieving public web pages to support Wrtn search, retrieval, and AI answer-generation features.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the WRTNBot identity and apply the operator’s robots controls; corroborate with Wrtn network information where stronger authentication is needed.
- Detection Notes
- WRTNBot is a distinct Wrtn web crawler for search/AI retrieval, with a dedicated robots token and documented HTTP agent.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: WRTNBot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "WRTNBot" botcrawl_match=1- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "WRTNBot") { set $botcrawl_match 1; }