HuckabuyBot is a bot in the SEO crawlers category, operated by Huckabuy.
Huckabot is Huckabuy’s main crawler which is utilized by almost all of Huckabuy’s products. The primary purpose of Huckabot is to crawl and index a customer’s website, which is then rendered and optimized with our Dynamic Rendering Product. Several of the Page Speed product boosters, such as Fold Prioritization, also leverage Huckabot in order to optimize and improve a website’s performance.
SEO crawlers map links, keywords and technical issues for SEO tools and backlink databases. They help the tool's customers, often your competitors, rather than you. Rate limit or block the ones you do not use.
HuckabuyBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Huckabot/0.0; +https://huckabuy.com/)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 HuckabuyBot 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: Huckabot Disallow: /
User-agent: Huckabot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Huckabot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Huckabot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Huckabot group, HuckabuyBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Huckabot from HuckabuyBot's user agent; check Huckabuy'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.
HuckabuyBot works for an SEO tool's customers, often your competitors. It adds server load without readers, so rate limit or block it unless you use the tool.
Transfon Security for publishersSEO crawlers map landing pages and links for competitor research. Keep HuckabuyBot's visits out of campaign data.
Transfon Security for advertisersHuckabuyBot can map your catalogue, prices and site structure for competitors. Block it unless you use the tool yourself.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow HuckabuyBot only if your team uses the tool; otherwise rate limit it on docs and marketing pages.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows HuckabuyBot 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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HuckabuyBot is a bot in the SEO crawlers category, operated by Huckabuy. Huckabot is Huckabuy’s main crawler which is utilized by almost all of Huckabuy’s products. The primary purpose of Huckabot is to crawl and index a customer’s website, which is then rendered and optimized with our Dynamic Rendering Product. Several of the Page Speed product boosters, such as Fold Prioritization, also leverage Huckabot in order to optimize and improve a website’s performance.
We have not confirmed whether HuckabuyBot 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: Huckabot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Huckabot/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so HuckabuyBot may not follow it, and anyone can send HuckabuyBot's user agent, so a fake HuckabuyBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
SEO crawlers map links, keywords and technical issues for SEO tools and backlink databases. They help the tool's customers, often your competitors, rather than you. Rate limit or block the ones you do not use.
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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