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ZipchatBot

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Operated by Zipchat Inc ai assistant Web Bot Auth signed

AI assistant for e-commerce stores. Only crawls sites upon request from the site owner.

How to identify it

User-agent contains any of:

  • ZipchatBot

How to verify it's genuine

ZipchatBot signs its requests with Web Bot Auth. Botscope verifies the HTTP Message Signature against the operator's published key directory — a forged signature is flagged instantly. View the key directory ↗

robots.txt

Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control ZipchatBot:

Allow full access

User-agent: ZipchatBot
Allow: /

Block entirely

User-agent: ZipchatBot
Disallow: /

Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless — see how →

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