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Oracle bots and crawlers
Oracle owned the Grapeshot contextual advertising technology.
Oracle bots at a glance
- Oracle runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Ads and Platform Fetchers.
- Each Oracle bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.oracle.com
Every Oracle bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrapeshotCrawler | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Oracle bots
The rules below name every Oracle token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Oracle bots
User-agent: GrapeshotCrawler
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Oracle bots
User-agent: GrapeshotCrawler
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Oracle bots out of private areas only
User-agent: GrapeshotCrawler
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Oracle bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(GrapeshotCrawler)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Oracle bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (GrapeshotCrawler) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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