What is GeedoShopProductFinder?

GeedoShopProductFinder is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Geedo SIA.

Bot name
GeedoShopProductFinder
Operator
Geedo SIA
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Yes
robots.txt user agent
GeedoShopProductFinder
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
No

About GeedoShopProductFinder

GeedoShopProductFinder is the automated crawl

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.

GeedoShopProductFinder user agent

GeedoShopProductFinder identifies itself with this user agent string:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; GeedoShopProductFinder) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

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.

How to block GeedoShopProductFinder in robots.txt

GeedoShopProductFinder 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.

Block GeedoShopProductFinder from the whole site

User-agent: GeedoShopProductFinder
Disallow: /

Block GeedoShopProductFinder from some folders

User-agent: GeedoShopProductFinder
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow GeedoShopProductFinder only on some folders

User-agent: GeedoShopProductFinder
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow GeedoShopProductFinder and block other crawlers

User-agent: GeedoShopProductFinder
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Things to know

  • Each host needs its own file. Rules on www.example.com do not apply to shop.example.com.
  • A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it. Once you add a User-agent: GeedoShopProductFinder group, GeedoShopProductFinder ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take GeedoShopProductFinder from GeedoShopProductFinder's user agent; check Geedo SIA's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.
  • Crawlers cache robots.txt, so changes can take up to a day to apply. Disallow stops crawling but does not remove pages already collected or indexed.

Limits of robots.txt

  1. GeedoShopProductFinder may not follow the rule. GeedoShopProductFinder says it follows robots.txt, but nothing enforces that. Changes can take a day to apply, the operator can change its policy, and other crawlers from Geedo SIA use different names and rules.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send GeedoShopProductFinder's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by Geedo SIA's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real GeedoShopProductFinder from a fake one.

Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.

Who should care about GeedoShopProductFinder

Publishers

GeedoShopProductFinder 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.

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Media buyers and advertisers

When ads or posts are shared, GeedoShopProductFinder fetches the landing page. Those hits are not clicks, so keep them out of campaign reports.

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E-commerce

Product links shared in chats and feeds are fetched by GeedoShopProductFinder. Keep it allowed so previews show the right image and price.

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SaaS and APIs

Allow GeedoShopProductFinder on public pages so shared links preview well, and keep it off the app.

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Block GeedoShopProductFinder with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows GeedoShopProductFinder 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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Control GeedoShopProductFinder on your site

  • See every GeedoShopProductFinder visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit GeedoShopProductFinder with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is GeedoShopProductFinder?

GeedoShopProductFinder is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Geedo SIA. GeedoShopProductFinder is the automated crawl

Does GeedoShopProductFinder respect robots.txt?

Yes. GeedoShopProductFinder follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the GeedoShopProductFinder user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.

How do I block GeedoShopProductFinder?

Add "User-agent: GeedoShopProductFinder" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "GeedoShopProductFinder" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block GeedoShopProductFinder?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so GeedoShopProductFinder may not follow it, and anyone can send GeedoShopProductFinder's user agent, so a fake GeedoShopProductFinder ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block GeedoShopProductFinder?

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.

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