The Lightpanda browser is an AI-centric headless browser used for scraping and automation.
It is currently being used by a botnet of millions of IP addresses, including over 20k SpaceX IPs, to scrape sites such as the official Haskell Gitlab:
https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser/issues/3156
Re-submission of #248, which was merged then reverted in 80c19fc. The revert was
caused by main.yml's commit-message handling, not by this data — that is fixed
separately in #254.
Six entries move from "Unclear at this time." to the operator's own documented
value, each citing the primary source inline:
Applebot Yes support.apple.com/en-us/119829#retrieval
Meta-ExternalAgent Yes developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/
Meta-ExternalFetcher No (same Meta page — user-initiated fetch, documented
meta-externalfetcher No as not checking robots.txt)
DuckAssistBot Yes duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassistbot/
Google-Agent Yes developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers#google-agent
table-of-bot-metrics.md is regenerated and included, so `robots.py --convert` has
nothing left to write and the workflow's commit step is skipped entirely.
Verified: code/tests.py 13/13 · robots.py --convert exits 0 and is idempotent ·
robots.txt, .htaccess, the nginx/lighttpd/haproxy configs and the Caddyfile are
byte-identical · the JSON diff touches only the six `respect` fields, nothing else.
Applebot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, meta-externalfetcher,
DuckAssistBot and Google-Agent carried 'Unclear at this time.' in both
operator and respect, but each operator documents the behaviour on its
own site. Values are linked to the primary source inline, matching the
style already used by Applebot-Extended and meta-externalagent.
robots.txt output is unchanged — no keys added or renamed.
User-agent header values seen in the wild over the last days:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NagetBot/1.0; +https://naget.ai/bot)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 newsai/1.0 Safari/537.36