Centinel AnalyticaVeryHip Bot
VeryHip Bot is the fetcher for veryhip.com, a link-sharing and social publishing platform. Its documentation states the bot downloads content a user wants to link to in order to confirm the URL works and to gather metadata such as published date and associated images, so the platform can build a link preview. The operator says it follows robots.txt under the token veryhip and stops requesting from a site after more than 10 denial responses regardless of robots.txt. No legal entity, IP ranges or reverse DNS hostnames are published; the documented page is /bot.html, while the second observed variant VeryHipBot/1.0 points at https://veryhip.com/bot, which returns 404.
At a glance
- Operator: VeryHip
- Type: Preview
How Centinel checks it
- User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.
VeryHip Bot 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, Preview.