What is videootvBot?
videootvBot is a crawler that extracts the newest articles from publisher websites via feeds or HTML parsing to create carousels with images, links and text for native ads modules to improve content recirculation. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Digital Green |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
| Insights Last Updated | July 31, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
videootvBot shows up within seconds of someone sharing one of your URLs, grabs the title, description, and preview image, and leaves. Expect one hit per share, no link following, and volume that tracks how much your content circulates. A widely shared link can mean thousands of fetches in an hour.
How To Block videootvBot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that videootvBot not access your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to request the same of all fetchers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: videootvBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/videootvbot
Disallow: /Global Insights for videootvBot
As of July 31, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block videootvBot in their robots.txt files.
Overall Fetcher Traffic
4.0% of all web traffic came from fetchers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block videootvBot?
No. videootvBot builds the link preview that appears when someone shares your page in a chat or social feed. Blocking it turns those shares into bare links with no title or image, which fewer people click. Its traffic normally follows sharing activity rather than a crawl schedule, so if it ever starts crawling at volume, rate limit it instead of blocking it. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for videootvBot right now.
Does videootvBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. videootvBot is not expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule only states your preference. Enforce the block with firewall or server rules, then confirm in Agent Analytics that its requests actually stop.
Does videootvBot Access Private Content?
It cannot. videootvBot loads only the exact URL someone shared, reads the title, description, and preview image, and leaves. It has no credentials and does not follow links to other pages.
Why Is videootvBot Visiting My Website?
Someone shared a link to your page. videootvBot fetched it once to build the preview card, and every new share can trigger another fetch, so spikes mean your content is spreading.
How Can I Tell if videootvBot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks videootvBot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "videootvBot". Look for hits on single pages moments after someone shares a link, with no crawling afterward. Keep in mind that videootvBot doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.