Crawler information
About ReplatformRadarBot
Last updated: July 18, 2026
ReplatformRadarBot is the crawler behind Replatform Radar, a pre-migration content audit service. If you found this page in your server logs, this explains who we are, why we visited, and how to control our access.
Why we visited your site
We only crawl a site when someone asks us to audit it — normally the site’s owner or the team planning its migration. We do not crawl the web at large to build an index, and we do not sell or republish the content we read.
A scan reads publicly reachable pages to assess what would break in a CMS migration: redirect risk, duplicate and orphaned content, structured-data coverage, and similar signals. The result is a private report for whoever requested it.
How to identify us
Our crawler presents this user agent:
ReplatformRadarScanner/0.1 (+https://replatformradar.com; pre-migration content audit)
Research crawls — used for aggregate, published studies rather than a customer report — identify themselves separately:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ReplatformRadarResearch/1.0; +https://replatformradar.com/bot)
And a third agent makes the occasional single request when a scan fails, purely to establish why (is the site down, or is it refusing automated clients?):
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ReplatformRadarBot/1.0; +https://replatformradar.com/bot)
Every agent we operate contains ReplatformRadar in its user agent, so a single rule covering that substring applies to all of them.
Signed requests
Our requests are cryptographically signed using HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421) with the web-bot-auth tag. The public key is published at /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory, so you can verify that a request claiming to be us genuinely is — rather than taking a user-agent string on trust.
How we behave
- We respect
robots.txt, including crawl directives that exclude us. - We rate-limit requests and back off when a server signals load.
- We do not attempt to bypass bot protection, log-ins, or paywalls.
- We do not submit forms, click purchase controls, or alter any state.
- We identify ourselves honestly and never impersonate another crawler.
How to block us
Add this to your robots.txt and we will stop crawling your site:
User-agent: ReplatformRadarScanner Disallow: /
We honour this on every request. If you believe we have ignored it, please tell us at support@replatformradar.com and we will investigate.
How to allow us (site owners scanning their own site)
If you have requested a scan and it fails, a bot-protection service is probably blocking us. This is common with Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, and Imperva, and it affects most automated auditing tools — not just ours. To let a scan through, allow our user agent in your WAF or CDN rules for the duration of the scan:
- Cloudflare — Security → WAF → Tools, or a custom rule that skips bot protection where the user agent contains
ReplatformRadarScanner. - Akamai — add the user agent to your Bot Manager allowlist.
- Other services — allowlist the same user agent string, or contact us and we will help.
Worth knowing: a wall strict enough to stop us also affects search-engine crawlers, uptime monitors, and AI answer engines. If our scan is blocked, that is itself a finding worth reviewing before you migrate.
Contact
Questions, complaints, or crawl-rate concerns: support@replatformradar.com. We respond to every message about crawler behaviour.