TNOThesisCrawler is a bot in the academic research crawlers category, operated by TNO.
Research crawler by TNO collecting publicly available academic theses from university websites for the DIAMONDS platform
Research crawlers collect pages for university and non-profit studies of the web. Most are low volume and respect robots.txt. Block them there if you prefer not to take part.
TNOThesisCrawler identifies itself with this user agent string:
TNOThesisCrawler/1.0 (+https://diamonds.tno.nl/bot-policy; email: [email protected])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 TNOThesisCrawler 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: TNOThesisCrawler Disallow: /
User-agent: TNOThesisCrawler Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: TNOThesisCrawler Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: TNOThesisCrawler Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: TNOThesisCrawler group, TNOThesisCrawler ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.TNOThesisCrawler from TNOThesisCrawler's user agent; check TNO'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 TNOThesisCrawler if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersTNOThesisCrawler is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow TNOThesisCrawler only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf TNOThesisCrawler 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 TNOThesisCrawler 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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TNOThesisCrawler is a bot in the academic research crawlers category, operated by TNO. Research crawler by TNO collecting publicly available academic theses from university websites for the DIAMONDS platform
We have not confirmed whether TNOThesisCrawler 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: TNOThesisCrawler" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "TNOThesisCrawler" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so TNOThesisCrawler may not follow it, and anyone can send TNOThesisCrawler's user agent, so a fake TNOThesisCrawler ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Research crawlers collect pages for university and non-profit studies of the web. Most are low volume and respect robots.txt. Block them there if you prefer not to take part.
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