What is CensysInspectBot?
CensysInspectBot belongs to Censys's internet-wide scanning activity. Censys probes public addresses and ports to identify exposed services and record what they return. For HTTP and HTTPS, its scanner requests /, follows local redirects, and can make more requests to classify the application it found.
That pattern differs from a conventional content crawl. A Censys request may be one step in examining a network service, not an attempt to follow all links or read a publication. Censys also says its scanners do not try to sign in, reach databases, or obtain authenticated access.
The observations feed Censys datasets used for internet measurement and security work. Censys does not document an AI answer product or a model-training purpose for this scanner. Blocking it can stop new Censys observations of a service, but it does not change the site's eligibility for AI search.
The current official HTTP identity is CensysInspect/1.1. That does not exactly match the CensysInspectBot token retained in this bot. Check the full header and compare the source with Censys's current scanner networks before assigning the traffic, since either user-agent name can be copied.
