CapitalOneBot is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Capital One.
Capital One Bot crawls dealer websites for getting the usage information for Capital One lead navigator button.
Aggregators collect articles and links from many sites to build news feeds, read later apps and discovery services. Some send referral traffic, others republish your content. Check what each one does with your pages before allowing it.
CapitalOneBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.79 Safari/537.36 CapitalOneBotAnyone 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 CapitalOneBot 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: CapitalOneBot Disallow: /
User-agent: CapitalOneBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: CapitalOneBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: CapitalOneBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: CapitalOneBot group, CapitalOneBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.CapitalOneBot from CapitalOneBot's user agent; check Capital One'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.
CapitalOneBot fetches pages when your links are shared or syndicated. Keep it allowed so previews and feeds work, but leave it out of page views and ad requests.
Transfon Security for publishersWhen ads or posts are shared, CapitalOneBot fetches the landing page. Those hits are not clicks, so keep them out of campaign reports.
Transfon Security for advertisersProduct links shared in chats and feeds are fetched by CapitalOneBot. Keep it allowed so previews show the right image and price.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow CapitalOneBot on public pages so shared links preview well, and keep it off the app.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows CapitalOneBot 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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CapitalOneBot is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Capital One. Capital One Bot crawls dealer websites for getting the usage information for Capital One lead navigator button.
We have not confirmed whether CapitalOneBot 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: CapitalOneBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "CapitalOneBot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so CapitalOneBot may not follow it, and anyone can send CapitalOneBot's user agent, so a fake CapitalOneBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Aggregators collect articles and links from many sites to build news feeds, read later apps and discovery services. Some send referral traffic, others republish your content. Check what each one does with your pages before allowing it.
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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