ImonuBot
Imonu's site reader.
ImonuBot reads a page only when an Imonu user enters that page's address and asks for a promo video about it. It doesn't crawl the web on its own.
What it reads
- The page the user entered.
- Up to 14 more pages from the same site, 4 at a time, within 12 seconds.
- It skips any path your robots.txt disallows.
How to recognise it
Its User-Agent contains ImonuBot/1.0:
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ImonuBot/1.0; +https://www.imonu.com/bot)
Its headless browser adds the Chrome version it runs, for example Chrome/143.0.7499.169 Safari/537.36.
Every request is signed with Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures, Ed25519) and carries Signature-Agent: "https://www.imonu.com". The public keys are at https://www.imonu.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory.
How to block it
Add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: ImonuBot Disallow: /
This also stops ImonuBot reading the page a user entered.