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A lightweight crawler often used for checking link validity or small-scale scraping.
A lightweight crawler often used for checking link validity or small-scale scraping.
ViennaTinyBot crawls websites using the user-agent ViennaTinyBot. Review the safety rating and blocking impact below.
<code>User-agent: ViennaTinyBot</code> — Matching is case-insensitive. Robots.txt is fetched from the root of each subdomain separately.
ViennaTinyBot is verifiable via reverse-DNS lookup on the crawling IP addresses. You can safely allow it unless you have a specific reason to block (e.g., AI training opt-out or SEO tool visibility).Understanding ViennaTinyBot's purpose helps you decide whether to allow or block it.
ViennaTinyBot. This is the exact string you must use in robots.txt, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare firewall rules to target this bot. User-agent matching in robots.txt is case-insensitive, but the string must be spelled correctly. You can verify that a request genuinely comes from ViennaTinyBot by performing a reverse-DNS lookup on the source IP — legitimate bots resolve back to their operator's domain.ViennaTinyBot is verifiable via reverse-DNS lookup on the crawling IP addresses. You can safely allow it unless you have a specific reason to block (e.g., AI training opt-out or SEO tool visibility)./robots.txt file:
User-agent: ViennaTinyBot Disallow: /This instructs ViennaTinyBot not to crawl any path on your site. The Disallow: / directive covers the entire domain including subfolders. To only block specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g.,
Disallow: /blog/). Note: robots.txt is publicly readable — any bot or human can inspect it at yourdomain.com/robots.txt.ViennaTinyBot (case-insensitive grep: grep -i "ViennaTinyBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log). You can also check Google Search Console → Coverage → Crawl Stats for Googlebot variants. For ViennaTinyBot specifically, filter by user-agent in your log analysis tool (GoAccess, AWStats, etc.).User-agent: ViennaTinyBot Crawl-delay: 10(10 second delay between requests).
Disallow: / you can restrict ViennaTinyBot to specific paths:
User-agent: ViennaTinyBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /staging/ Allow: /This allows ViennaTinyBot everywhere except the listed paths. Path matching in robots.txt uses prefix matching —
Disallow: /private/ blocks /private/page.html but NOT /public/private/.Crawl-delay: 30 below the User-agent directive in robots.txt.
2. Rate-limit the user-agent via Nginx's limit_req_zone or Apache's mod_ratelimit.
3. Block it outright at Cloudflare WAF with rule: http.user_agent contains "ViennaTinyBot".
4. Use fail2ban to auto-block IPs exceeding request thresholds.Check instantly with our free AI Bot Checker
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