Redditbot
Listed onlyReddit's on-demand fetcher that retrieves a shared URL's metadata to build the link preview shown on a post. Reddit's robots.txt now disallows all crawling and documents no user agent, IP list, or verification method for this fetcher.
Operated by Reddit · Official documentation
User agents
Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.
- regexredditbot/\d
- observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; redditbot/1.0; +http://www.reddit.com/feedback)
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
- 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.