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AcademicBotRTU

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Crawler run by Riga Technical University that indexes websites and documents to compare against student and researcher works for plagiarism detection. The operator publishes no IP ranges, so requests cannot be verified.

Operated by Riga Technical University (Institute of Applied Computer Systems) · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexAcademicBotRTU
  • observedAcademicBotRTU (https://academicbot.rtu.lv; mailto:[email protected])

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: AcademicBotRTU)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.