OctopusBot is the crawler for OCTOPUS AI NEWS, a Portuguese language artificial intelligence news publication produced in Brazil. It reads RSS feeds, Atom feeds and news sitemaps and keeps only the title, summary and link of each item, uses conditional requests, and respects robots.txt as well as HTTP 429 and 503 responses, and the operator states that article text and images are not copied or stored. The user agent points at a documentation page hosted on a Cloudflare workers.dev subdomain, which is shared tenancy infrastructure that any account can register on, although that URL currently redirects to the operator's own octopusai.news domain, and no IP ranges or reverse DNS hostnames are published for verification.

At a glance

Operator: OCTOPUS AI NEWS
Type: Aggregator

How Centinel checks it

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

OctopusBot 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, Aggregator.

Back to the crawler catalog