PureRankBot

PureRankBot is the content-quality auditing crawler behind PureRank. It fetches a small sample of publicly available pages to compute an AI-content risk report, usually at a site owner's or SEO auditor's request.

User-Agent

How it behaves

• Tiny footprint: one scan fetches at most ~25 HTML pages plus robots.txt, sitemaps and an RSS feed — once, not continuously.
• Rate: at most ~2 requests/second to a single host; honors Crawl-delay (up to 3s).
• robots.txt: fully honored — Disallow rules for PureRankBot (or *) are respected; disallowed sites are not scanned.
• Caching: the same domain is not re-crawled more often than once per few hours.
• No JavaScript execution, no form submissions, no login areas, no paywall bypass, no personal-data collection beyond publicly served HTML.
• Owner-verified scans (DNS TXT / meta-tag proof) may fetch with a relaxed profile at the owner's request.

How to block PureRankBot

Add to your robots.txt:

The crawler checks robots.txt before any page fetch and will refuse the scan entirely.

Verify you own a site

Site owners can prove ownership (DNS TXT record, meta tag, or a /.well-known/purerank-verify.txt file) via POST /api/verify to unlock unlimited re-scans of their own property. See API documentation.

Contact

Questions or removal requests: contact the operator of this PureRank instance. This is self-hosted software; each deployment is operated independently.