SwifteqLinkChecker is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Swfiteq Ltd.
Help Center Export is a Zendesk-approved app that integrates with any Zendesk help center and helps the customers with these tasks: Export all your articles and any meta-data: title, section, link, labels, updated time. Export all references to internal and external docs. Detect and export broken links and images for each article. In order to check for broken links the app is using a bot that attempts to access each link present in help center articles and check the response for errors.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
SwifteqLinkChecker identifies itself with this user agent string:
SwifteqLinkCheckerAnyone 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 SwifteqLinkChecker 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: SwifteqLinkChecker Disallow: /
User-agent: SwifteqLinkChecker Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: SwifteqLinkChecker Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: SwifteqLinkChecker Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: SwifteqLinkChecker group, SwifteqLinkChecker ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.SwifteqLinkChecker from SwifteqLinkChecker's user agent; check Swfiteq Ltd'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.
Allow SwifteqLinkChecker if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersSwifteqLinkChecker is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow SwifteqLinkChecker only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf SwifteqLinkChecker is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows SwifteqLinkChecker 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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SwifteqLinkChecker is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Swfiteq Ltd. Help Center Export is a Zendesk-approved app that integrates with any Zendesk help center and helps the customers with these tasks: Export all your articles and any meta-data: title, section, link, labels, updated time. Export all references to internal and external docs. Detect and export broken links and images for each article. In order to check for broken links the app is using a bot that attempts to access each link present in help center articles and check the response for errors.
We have not confirmed whether SwifteqLinkChecker 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: SwifteqLinkChecker" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "SwifteqLinkChecker" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so SwifteqLinkChecker may not follow it, and anyone can send SwifteqLinkChecker's user agent, so a fake SwifteqLinkChecker ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
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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