What is QuartrCrawler?

QuartrCrawler is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Quartr.

Bot name
QuartrCrawler
Operator
Quartr
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Not confirmed
robots.txt user agent
QuartrCrawler
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
Yes

About QuartrCrawler

Quartr uses a crawler to obtain and deliver investor relations material

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.

QuartrCrawler user agent

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 QuartrCrawler in robots.txt

We have not confirmed whether QuartrCrawler 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.

Block QuartrCrawler from the whole site

User-agent: QuartrCrawler
Disallow: /

Block QuartrCrawler from some folders

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

Allow QuartrCrawler only on some folders

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

Allow QuartrCrawler and block other crawlers

User-agent: QuartrCrawler
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: QuartrCrawler group, QuartrCrawler ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take QuartrCrawler from QuartrCrawler's user agent; check Quartr'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. QuartrCrawler may not follow the rule. robots.txt is a request that nothing enforces, and we have not confirmed that QuartrCrawler follows it. Check your logs after adding a rule.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send QuartrCrawler's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by Quartr's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real QuartrCrawler from a fake one.

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

Who should care about QuartrCrawler

Publishers

QuartrCrawler 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, QuartrCrawler 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 QuartrCrawler. Keep it allowed so previews show the right image and price.

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SaaS and APIs

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

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Block QuartrCrawler with Transfon Security

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

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

Frequently asked questions

What is QuartrCrawler?

QuartrCrawler is a bot in the content aggregators category, operated by Quartr. Quartr uses a crawler to obtain and deliver investor relations material

Does QuartrCrawler respect robots.txt?

We have not confirmed whether QuartrCrawler 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.

How do I block QuartrCrawler?

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

Is robots.txt enough to block QuartrCrawler?

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

Should I block QuartrCrawler?

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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