Verified Bots Directory

Directory / AI assistants

Shap-User

Fully verifiable

Parallel's user-triggered fetcher. It identifies itself when Parallel accesses content on behalf of a user, giving content owners visibility into user-initiated requests. The operator documents that it is not used for automatic crawling and is intended to provide visibility rather than to be managed through robots.txt, which governs ShapBot instead. Parallel signs Shap-User requests with Web Bot Auth and publishes the key directory.

Operated by Parallel Web Systems · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexShap-User/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Shap-User/0.1.0

How to verify

Fetch the Web Bot Auth key directory

curl -s https://shap-user.parallel.ai/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully 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.