Swiftbot

Listed only

The web crawler behind Swiftype's site-search product, now operated by Elasticsearch B.V. Unlike a general search-engine crawler it only visits sites that Swiftype customers have asked it to crawl, in order to build a search index for those sites. The operator documents that Swiftbot obeys every restriction it finds in robots.txt, including a full-site disallow, and that it looks for the token Swiftbot.

Operated by Elasticsearch B.V. (Swiftype) · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexSwiftbot/\d
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Swiftbot/1.0; UID/649dce5512ab734096a50277; +http://swiftype.com/swiftbot)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
Respects robots.txt
Honors robots.txt (token: Swiftbot)
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.