Channel3Bot

Channel3Bot visits public product detail pages for Channel3. The resulting index feeds Channel3's universal product catalog, where AI agents can find products and send shoppers back to the merchant's original page.

According to Channel3's bot documentation, the crawler reads product information such as images, titles, descriptions, prices, availability, variants, and other attributes. Its documented user agents are Channel3/1.0 (+https://trychannel3.com/channel3bot) and Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Channel3Bot/1.0; +https://trychannel3.com/channel3bot). Those requests should be concentrated on public catalog pages, not accounts or checkout screens.

This is an AI product-discovery crawler, but it is not described as a general-purpose model-training bot. Allowing it can make current product details available in Channel3-powered experiences. It does not guarantee placement, a sale, or visibility in unrelated AI assistants.

Channel3 says its crawler respects robots.txt and rate limits concurrent requests. Cloudflare's directory entry disagrees on the first point and marks followsRobotsTxt as false. Since the two published sources conflict, treat compliance as partial and confirm it against requests to your own disallowed paths.

There are two useful identity checks. Channel3 documents reverse and forward DNS verification for hostnames ending in bot.trychannel3.com; it says the crawler runs from changing US-based AWS addresses. Cloudflare also publishes the Web Bot Auth directory at https://bot.trychannel3.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory for signed traffic.

Merchants often have a reason to allow product pages while excluding stale archives or nonpublic areas. Put that policy in robots.txt, then use the signature or DNS check before exempting Channel3Bot from broader bot controls.