Goodreads is a social cataloging website that allows users to create reading lists, rate and review books, and connect with other readers. The bot fetches content from web pages to generate book previews and metadata when users share links on the platform.

At a glance

Operator: Amazon
Type: Other

How Centinel checks it

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

Goodreads 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, Other.

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