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OnticaBot

Feed-fetching crawler that discovers and fetches public articles for curated content feeds.
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What is OnticaBot?

OnticaBot is Ontica Pty Ltd's social media crawler. Feed-fetching crawler that discovers and fetches public articles for curated content feeds.

OnticaBot works across social platforms, where shared links and their preview metadata drive discovery. The same structured metadata it reads also helps AI systems understand your pages, so keeping it allowed supports both social reach and AI visibility.

Like any automated client, OnticaBot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

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How to handle OnticaBot

You will usually want OnticaBot allowed so your pages surface properly when people share them. Block it only if you do not want your content appearing on that platform.

To control OnticaBot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: OnticaBot
Disallow: /

Ontica Pty Ltd does not publish a robots.txt commitment for OnticaBot, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

OnticaBot is a Cloudflare signed agent: it signs requests with Web Bot Auth and publishes its keys at https://ontica.com.au/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory, so you can tell genuine traffic from anything spoofing its user agent.

Examples

  • A social team shares a campaign landing page and checks that OnticaBot fetched the right image and title.
  • A marketer keeps OnticaBot allowed so posts linking to the site render with full preview metadata.

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OnticaBot is operated by Ontica Pty Ltd. It functions as Ontica Pty Ltd's social media crawler.

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