CapitalOneBot

What is CapitalOneBot?

About

CapitalOneBot is a web crawler used by Capital One to crawl dealer websites and gather usage information for Capital One's lead navigator button integration. It monitors how the financial services tools are being implemented and used across partner sites. You can see how often CapitalOneBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Capital One
Last Updated 18 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking CapitalOneBot
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Country of Origin

Unknown
CapitalOneBot has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block CapitalOneBot?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block CapitalOneBot?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block CapitalOneBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block CapitalOneBot

User-agent: CapitalOneBot
Disallow: /

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