About this bot
ZumBot is a search crawler associated with Zum Internet Corp and used for search indexing.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is ZumBot. Representative HTTP request identity: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ZumBot/1.0; http://help.zum.com/inquiry).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: verified bot.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under ZumBot.
Risk classification: Safe. Evaluate 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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ZumBotMozilla/5.0 (compatible; ZumBot/1.0; http://help.zum.com/inquiry)
Details
- Kind
- Search crawler
- Family
- Zum
- Purpose
- Search indexing
- Common Use
- crawling pages for ZUM search discovery and indexing
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Match the current `ZumBot` crawler identity and corroborate the source independently when authentication matters.
- Detection Notes
- Match `ZumBot` in the documented crawler User-Agent. The User-Agent is an identity claim, not proof of origin.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: ZumBot Disallow: /