Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Security scanners

EdgeWatch

Verifiable

Internet-wide scanner for EdgeWatch's attack-surface and threat-intelligence platform. It makes connection attempts to public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses daily and completes protocol handshakes to fingerprint the services it finds; EdgeWatch documents the subnet its scanners use and an e-mail opt-out.

Operated by EdgeWatch · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexEdgeWatch/[\d.]+
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; EdgeWatch/1.1; +https://about.edgewatch.com/)

How to verify

Documented static ranges: 185.114.175.0/24

IP ranges (1)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/edgewatch.ips and /data/bots/edgewatch.json.

185.114.175.0/24

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Does not honor robots.txt

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.