The Crawler Zoo
The Crawler Zoo is a live website that identifies the bots and crawlers visiting it, classifies them, and presents them as named specimen files and exhibits. It is designed to help site owners understand crawler behavior, robots.txt compliance, and ways to block unwanted traffic.
At a Glance
- Website owners and operators
- Developers and bot/crawler operators
- AI and search ecosystem observers
- SEO and web-performance practitioners
- +2 more
AI Tools by The Crawler Zoo
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The Crawler Zoo
Bot Traffic Tracker and Blocker
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Products & Services
The core live web experience: it classifies bot requests, displays live counts and arrivals, groups species into enclosures, and provides specimen files with operator, user-agent, robots.txt, traffic, network, and blocking information.
Documentation explaining the five enclosures, bot verification, impostors, masked visitors, specimen files, the Trap Room, privacy, and how crawler operators can request reclassification.
A bring-your-own-bot game platform offering a labyrinth race, Politeness Cup, Scavenger Hunt, Feeding Time, and bot-versus-bot Rock, Paper, Scissors. Passes provide secret codes and games can be played through plain pages or JSON.
A web tool that generates robots.txt rules from presets or selected crawlers, including controls for AI-training bots, all AI bots, SEO tools, and search engines.
Market Position
A public educational exhibit of crawler traffic reaching crawlerzoo.com, with specimen files, compliance information and games. The embeddable badge shows the zoo's counts; this is not established as an analytics service that monitors arbitrary customer websites.
Founding Story
The project was created to turn otherwise opaque bot traffic into something observable and understandable: every request is checked against a crawler catalogue, identified, drawn as a creature, and displayed. The creator's public launch description frames it as a site where every visiting bot becomes an exhibit, rather than merely a traffic-blocking tool.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Free admission supported by clearly labelled advertising shown to people and voluntary Buy Me a Coffee contributions or bot adoption.
Pricing Tiers
Admission stays free; the site sets no first-party cookies. Third-party advertising cookies and temporary security logs are disclosed in its privacy policy.
Optional paid support through Buy Me a Coffee; current price not verified. A name appears on a randomly selected eligible bot's plaque for one year.
Voluntary contributions through Buy Me a Coffee; current suggested amounts not verified.
Target Markets
- Website owners and operators
- Developers and bot/crawler operators
- AI and search ecosystem observers
- SEO and web-performance practitioners
- Researchers and people interested in web automation
- Developers building scripts or AI agents for the Arena
- Website owners investigating crawler and scraper traffic
- Understanding AI, search-engine, SEO, link-preview, and scanner behavior
- Checking whether crawlers obey robots.txt and identifying impostors
- Generating robots.txt rules to block selected AI or SEO crawlers
- Learning about crawler etiquette and web-crawling behavior
- Bot and AI-agent testing through the Arena's games