Blocked bots

We block a number of crawlers/bots that we identify by their User-Agent Header on *.val.run domains. These bots generated an inordinate amount of traffic (they are particularly fond of playing chess).

This list may change at any time, we'll do our best to keep it up to date.

User-Agent
Amazonbot
Anchor Browser
Applebot
Bytespider
ClaudeBot
Claude-SearchBot
GPTBot
meta-externalagent
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot/7~bl; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DataForSeoBot/1.0; +https://dataforseo.com/dataforseo-bot)