payroll-bot
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Operated by ADP
ai crawler
payroll-bot is an AI crawler operated by ADP, Inc. to collect publicly available legal and payroll documentation.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
AdpResearchBot/
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control payroll-bot:
Allow full access
User-agent: AdpResearchBot/
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: AdpResearchBot/
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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