Agent directory / ShapBot
ShapBot
Observed live across sites Botfall meters — measured, not copied from docs
Last seen10 days ago
First seen56 days ago
Fetches · 24h0
Fetches · 30d18
Sites seen on2
Identity verified no published ranges
Networks observed GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC
| Operator | Parallel Web Systems (parallel.ai) |
| Purpose | AI · live answer fetch |
| Identifies as | User-agent substring: shapbot |
| robots.txt token | shapbot |
| Notes | Crawler of Parallel Web Systems (parallel.ai), which sells web search/retrieval APIs that feed AI systems. Presents a browser-flavored UA with a malformed "compatible; ShapBot" structure. Parallel publishes crawler documentation and IP ranges. |
What the operator publishes
Their documentation, not our measurements — re-checked automatically every day.
| Operator documentation | https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/crawler link checked 2026-09-30 |
Provenance
What establishes this record, and when it was last checked — no speculative entries.
- AI investigation + live telemetry, operator-approvedchecked 2026-08-04
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