AudD is a bot in the other bots category, operated by AudD, LLC.
On-demand music recognition API operated by AudD
Bots that do not fit the other categories. Review their purpose and allow only what you need.
Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether AudD follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: AudD Disallow: /
User-agent: AudD Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: AudD Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: AudD Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: AudD group, AudD ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.AudD from AudD's user agent; check AudD, LLC's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow AudD if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersAudD is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow AudD only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf AudD is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows AudD by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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AudD is a bot in the other bots category, operated by AudD, LLC. On-demand music recognition API operated by AudD
We have not confirmed whether AudD follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: AudD" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "AudD" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so AudD may not follow it, and anyone can send AudD's user agent, so a fake AudD ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Bots that do not fit the other categories. Review their purpose and allow only what you need.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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