What does the crawler take from an article?

Its description names images, links, and text. It can obtain that material from a feed or by parsing the article's HTML.

Should it appear on a site outside Digital Green's network?

Cloudflare's bot directory says it only crawls Digital Green publisher websites. Traffic elsewhere does not match the stated use and should be checked.

Will videootv Bot honor robots.txt?

Yes. The record marks robots.txt compliance as true, and rules can target the stable `videootvBot` token.

Does videootv Bot send content to AI systems?

No AI search or training use is documented. Its described destination is the publisher's on-site carousel.

videootv Bot & AI Search: What to Know

What is videootv Bot?

videootv Bot works on sites that publish through Digital Green's native advertising module. It finds the publisher's newest articles so the module can build a carousel that sends readers to more content on the same site. The crawler record says it visits Digital Green publisher websites rather than the web at large.

Recent stories can come from a feed or from parsed HTML. The bot extracts the article text, destination link, and image needed by the carousel. This is a recirculation workflow: the fetched material is used to populate a component on the publisher's own pages.

The full recorded user agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; videootvBot; +https://www.videoo.tv). Digital Green reports that the bot respects robots.txt. The available record does not provide a crawl interval, a source IP range, or signed-request verification.

There is no documented AI search or model-training use. A successful crawl can keep the publisher's carousel supplied with current stories, while a block can leave that module stale. It does not indicate that the articles are being added to a generative search index.

Indirectly relevant

Is videootv Bot relevant for AI search?

Indirectly. videootv Bot has no AI product of its own, but its output can end up in the systems that AI answers draw on.

videootv Bot collects content from many sites and redistributes it through its own product. Aggregated copies can end up in datasets that AI systems later learn from, and some aggregators are themselves sources that AI answer engines draw on.

How to handle videootv Bot

Publishers using the Digital Green module should keep the configured feed and recent article URLs reachable. If only one section supplies the carousel, allow that section and exclude unrelated routes rather than opening the whole site.

Digital Green lists the bot as robots.txt compliant, so a complete block can use:

User-agent: videootvBot
Disallow: /

Before opting out, confirm that no live module still expects crawler updates. A site with no Digital Green publishing relationship has no stated reason to receive these requests. Review the paths and source rather than trusting the user-agent label on its own.

Examples

A newspaper leaves its news feed and article pages open, then checks that a newly published story appears with the right image in the Digital Green carousel.
A magazine removes the native module at the end of a contract and disallows `videootvBot` after confirming that no remaining page depends on its refreshes.

Frequently asked questions about videootv Bot

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Digital Green uses it on participating publisher sites. The crawler supplies recent article material to a native advertising carousel that links within the publisher's site.