SleepBot is a web scraper that identifies itself with the token SleepBot/1.0 and links to the long-dormant sleepbot.com (inactive since around 2008). It has been observed systematically harvesting images, reportedly via a buggy script.

At a glance

Operator: SleepBot
Type: Scraper

How Centinel checks it

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

SleepBot 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, Scraper.

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