BotNow robot

If you see requests with the User-Agent BotNowBot in your site’s logs, that is our robot. It reads a store’s pages when the site owner, or someone at their request, enters the address into BotNow to build an AI assistant.

How it identifies itself

BotNowBot/0.1 (+https://botnow.site/bot/)

How it behaves

• It follows the rules in robots.txt for pages, except for the file itself and the sitemap.
• It reads public pages only, without logging in, and doesn’t try to bypass protection.
• It limits the number of requests per pass and the waiting time. One pass usually covers up to a few dozen pages.
• It doesn’t visit internal or private addresses.

How to block it

Add this to your site’s robots.txt:

User-agent: BotNowBot
Disallow: /

You can block only part of the site by listing the paths instead of /. If the robot should read the site but your protection blocks it (response code 403), add BotNowBot to the allowlist.

Questions and complaints: see the Contact page.