Paqlebot

Verifiable

Paqle's news crawler. It indexes news articles to discover who is mentioned in the media, crawling at most one page per minute per site and tuning its rate to how often a site publishes. Paqle documents that the crawler falls back to a site's Googlebot robots.txt rules when no Paqlebot rules are present, and that its addresses reverse-resolve under paqle.net.

Operated by Paqle · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexPaqlebot/\d
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Paqlebot/2.0; +http://www.paqle.dk/about/paqlebot)

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.paqle.net

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.paqle.net

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Verifiable
Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: Paqlebot)
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.