SurdotlyBot

Listed only

Sur.ly's crawler. The operator runs a spam-fighting link-safety service and uses this bot to fetch third-party sites and build a short security profile for each one, querying metadata and favicons and taking a screenshot of the homepage. The operator states it never harvests e-mail addresses or content unrelated to security.

Operated by Sur.ly · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexSurdotlyBot
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; SurdotlyBot/1.0; +http://sur.ly/bot.html; Linux; Android 4; iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0_1 like Mac OS X)

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: SurdotlyBot)
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.