WadooBot
WadooBot & WadooImageBot
Version: 1.0
Bot Type: Good (Identifies itself, has an official moniker)
Categories:
- WadooBot: Link Data Collection
- WadooImageBot: Image Indexing
Obeys Robots.txt: Yes
Obeys Crawl Delay: Yes
User-Agent Strings:
- WadooBot: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; WadooBot/1.0; +https://www.wadoo.net/wadoobot/)
- WadooImageBot: WadooImageBot/1.0 (+https://www.wadoo.net/wadoobot/)
What is WadooBot?
WadooBot is a web crawler that powers Wadoo! Search Results. It constantly scans the web to discover new links and monitor the status of existing ones to ensure our search engine delivers fresh, reliable results to users.
What is WadooImageBot?
WadooImageBot is our dedicated image crawler. It is used to index available images on the web to enhance visual search capabilities within the Wadoo! ecosystem. Like WadooBot, it identifies itself clearly and abides by all web crawling best practices.
What are these bots doing on your website?
- WadooBot – visits your site to log and catalog outbound links.
- WadooImageBot – visits image-rich pages to identify and index publicly accessible images.
Neither bot collects or stores other website data, executes scripts, triggers ads, or impacts your analytics traffic. They are optimized to be lightweight and respectful to your bandwidth and policies.
Do the bots respect robots.txt?
Yes. Absolutely.
Both WadooBot and WadooImageBot strictly follow the rules set in your robots.txt file, including Disallow, Allow, and Crawl-Delay directives.
How to control WadooBot and WadooImageBot on your website?
To control either bot, add the appropriate rules to your `robots.txt` file. Example:
User-agent: WadooBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: WadooImageBot
Disallow: /
To limit how frequently either bot visits your site, use the Crawl-Delay directive:
User-agent: WadooImageBot
Crawl-Delay: 10
Visit www.robotstxt.org to learn more about setting these directives properly.
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