CoostiBot is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Coosti ApS.
CoostiBot crawls merchant websites for Coosti.dk, a Danish price comparison platform. Respects robots.txt
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.
CoostiBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CoostiBot/1.0; +https://coosti.dk/bot-info)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.
CoostiBot follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: CoostiBot Disallow: /
User-agent: CoostiBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: CoostiBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: CoostiBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: CoostiBot group, CoostiBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.CoostiBot from CoostiBot's user agent; check Coosti ApS'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.
CoostiBot 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, CoostiBot 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 CoostiBot. Keep it allowed so previews show the right image and price.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow CoostiBot 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 CoostiBot 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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CoostiBot is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Coosti ApS. CoostiBot crawls merchant websites for Coosti.dk, a Danish price comparison platform. Respects robots.txt
Yes. CoostiBot follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the CoostiBot user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: CoostiBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "CoostiBot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so CoostiBot may not follow it, and anyone can send CoostiBot's user agent, so a fake CoostiBot 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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