What Is OpenHoseBot?
OpenHoseBot is an uncategorized agent. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know. You can see how often OpenHoseBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Agent Type
Expected Behavior
Uncategorized agents have unknown or unclear purposes, making their behavior difficult to predict. They may be legitimate tools like search crawlers, monitoring services, or research bots, or they could be unauthorized scrapers, security scanners, or experimental projects. If you encounter significant traffic from an uncategorized agent, investigating its user agent string and IP addresses may provide clues about its purpose and operator.
Detail
| Last Updated | 1 day ago |
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Top Website Blocking Trend Over Time
The percentage of the world's top 1000 websites who are blocking OpenHoseBot
Overall Uncategorized Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from uncategorized agents
User Agent String
| Example | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenHoseBot/2.1; +http://www.openhose.org/bot.html) |
Robots.txt
In this example, all pages are blocked. You can customize which pages are off-limits by swapping out / for a different disallowed path.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: OpenHoseBot # https://https://darkvisitors.com/agents/openhosebot
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions About OpenHoseBot
Should I Block OpenHoseBot?
It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.
How Do I Block OpenHoseBot?
You can block OpenHoseBot 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.