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RDTvlokipBot

Official crawler for RDTvlokip Search, an independent French search engine. Respects robots.txt.
Theo CHARLETRDTvlokipBot
Search Engine Crawler

What is RDTvlokipBot?

RDTvlokipBot is the crawler for RDTvlokip Search, an independent French search engine operated by Théo CHARLET. The service says it builds its own index instead of relying on Google or Bing, with the crawler concentrating on the French-speaking web.

Its job is conventional search indexing. RDTvlokipBot fetches pages so their contents and links can be represented in RDTvlokip Search results. Allowing it may make a public page discoverable in that particular engine, while blocking it can leave the page absent or stale there.

The operator's bot page publishes the full identity as Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; RDTvlokipBot/7.2; +https://search.rdtvlokip.fr/bot). It also states that the crawler respects robots.txt and does not collect personal data. Both this directory record and Cloudflare mark robots.txt compliance as true.

RDTvlokip Search does not document this crawler as a model-training collector or an AI answer fetcher. A visit can affect ordinary RDTvlokip search coverage, but it says nothing about inclusion in a large language model or visibility in unrelated AI search products.

Relevant for AI search

Is RDTvlokipBot relevant for AI search?

Yes. RDTvlokipBot collects pages for an AI product, so what it can crawl influences how AI systems describe your brand.

RDTvlokipBot feeds a search index that also powers that engine's AI answer features and overviews. One crawl can serve a classic results page and a generated summary, so blocking it costs you both the rankings you would expect and a growing share of AI answers built on the same index.

How to handle RDTvlokipBot

Keep RDTvlokipBot allowed if appearing in RDTvlokip Search matters to your French-language audience. Exclude sections that should not enter that index with path-specific rules, or block the crawler completely with:

User-agent: RDTvlokipBot
Disallow: /

The operator and both catalog records say this token follows robots.txt. Review the requested paths after publishing a rule and investigate if the crawler continues into disallowed areas. The published user agent is useful for matching logs, but the string alone is not authentication.

Examples

  • A French public library leaves its event pages open to RDTvlokipBot so they can appear in the engine's francophone index.
  • A shop permits product pages but disallows `/account/`, keeping customer routes outside the RDTvlokip crawl.
  • An administrator identifies version 7.2 in access logs and compares the claimed identity with the user agent on RDTvlokip's bot page.

Frequently asked questions about RDTvlokipBot

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Théo CHARLET operates RDTvlokipBot for RDTvlokip Search. The operator's bot page lists `[email protected]` for crawler questions.

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