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What is Grapeshot?

Direct Answer: The Grapeshot bot, part of Oracle Advertising, crawles web pages for content analysis and classification.

Operator: Grapeshot Type: Advertising Bot Purpose: Ad verification

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify Grapeshot in your live traffic data:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrapeshotCrawler/2.0; +http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/crawler.php)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F70 Safari/600.1. 4 (compatible; GrapeshotCrawler/2.0; +http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/crawler.php)

robots.txt Rules for Grapeshot

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

Grapeshot does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.

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Crawl Behavior

Request Pattern:Not documented

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for Grapeshot over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.

View recent activity data (last 7 days)
Date Activity Index
Mar 26, 2026 0.0
Mar 27, 2026 0.0
Mar 28, 2026 0.0
Mar 29, 2026 0.0
Mar 30, 2026 0.0
Mar 31, 2026 0.0
Apr 1, 2026 0.0

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track Grapeshot traffic?

Verify ad system crawling behavior. Grapeshot evaluates your pages for ad targeting, quality scoring, and policy compliance.

Optimize ad delivery. If Grapeshot can't properly access certain pages, ad targeting and revenue may be impacted. Log monitoring confirms accessibility.

Log Verification

To verify Grapeshot traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Grapeshot)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Official Documentation

View Official Grapeshot Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.