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

Uncategorized
Not currently assigned a 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

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0% of top websites are blocking OpenHoseBot
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Country of Origin

United States
OpenHoseBot normally visits from the United States

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

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.

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: /
How Do I Block All Uncategorized Agents?
⚠️ Manually copying and pasting this rule is not scalable, becuase new uncategorized agents are added every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks all of them automatically.

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.