For site owners
ProofieBot, the reader.
It reads a few public pages of a site when someone runs a check on it, the way a search engine would.
What it isThe reader that Proofie, automated software, uses to read public pages. It never logs in, fills in forms or buys anything.
RespectsYour robots.txt. A disallowed page is skipped and the report says it could not be read.
How it identifiesProofieBot/0.1 (+https://tryproofie.com/bot)
Block it
Add these lines to your robots.txt. To keep it out of one part of the site only, put that path after Disallow. You can also write to us at the contact address on tryproofie.com and name your website.
User-agent: ProofieBot
Disallow: /
Disallow: /
See also ProofieAgent.
Proofie is automated software. Results come from AI engines answering questions about your site.