findnixbot is the crawler for findnix.eu, a German privacy-focused metasearch site operated by a private individual. Its bot page states that the crawler fetches XML sitemaps, RSS and Atom feeds, image and video sitemaps, and public pages for title and description metadata in order to build a European search index, running about once per day for sitemaps with a 200 to 500 ms delay between requests, and respecting robots.txt and X-Robots-Tag headers. The public site presents itself mainly as a metasearch front end over other engines rather than as an independent index. A single server IP, 195.90.212.215, is published, but no reverse DNS hostnames are documented for verification.

At a glance

Operator: findnix.eu
Type: Search Engine
RSL category: search

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

findnixbot publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Search Engine.

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