About CreditedBot
CreditedBot checks whether a site carries a developer's verification tag. It requests the home page and, if needed, /.well-known/credited.json. That's all it reads.
What it does
- One request to the home page per site and day at most, usually once a week.
- Reads at most the first 256 KB of the page, and only the
<head>. - Follows redirects only within the same site, never to other hosts.
- Stores whether the tag was found and the HTTP status. Nothing else from the page is kept.
How to identify it
User-Agent: CreditedBot/1.0 (+https://credited.dev/bot)How to block it
Add this to your robots.txt. The bot respects it and the developer's project is marked as blocked instead of verified.
User-agent: CreditedBot
Disallow: /