IBM-Watson-NLU
recommended: observeIBM-Watson-NLU is a web fetcher operated by IBM that retrieves URLs submitted to Watson Natural Language Understanding for text analysis.
What it does
IBM-Watson-NLU usually makes a single request within seconds of a URL being shared, without crawling further. Traffic rises and falls with sharing activity, so a widely circulated link can produce a sharp burst of fetches.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
IBM-Watson-NLU
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control IBM-Watson-NLU:
Allow full access
User-agent: IBM-Watson-NLU
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: IBM-Watson-NLU
Disallow: /
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