Channel3Bot

Verifiable

Channel3's product crawler. It visits publicly accessible product detail pages and collects images, titles, descriptions, prices, availability and variants for Channel3's product catalogue, which AI apps and agents query to route shoppers back to the original site. The operator tells site owners not to hard-code its addresses and to verify it by forward-confirmed reverse DNS instead.

Operated by Channel3 · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexChannel3Bot/\d
regexChannel3/\d
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Channel3Bot/1.0; +https://trychannel3.com/channel3bot)
observedChannel3/1.0 (+https://trychannel3.com/channel3bot)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.bot.trychannel3.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.bot.trychannel3.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (2 patterns)
Verifiable
Verifiable
Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt
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.