Jugendschutzprogramm-Crawler

The Jugendschutzprogramm-Crawler (which translates to 'Youth Protection Program Crawler') is an intelligence-gathering bot from the German organization JusProg. Its function is to analyze web content for compliance with German youth protection standards. It identifies itself in server logs with a user-agent string like Jugendschutzprogramm-Crawler; Info: http://www.jugendschutzprogramm.de. The crawler employs a multi-layered approach to evaluate content, examining page structure, language, and embedded media. It maintains a moderate request rate and focuses on content analysis rather than comprehensive indexing.

This crawler is visiting your site to analyze its content and determine its suitability for different age groups under German youth protection standards. It is more likely to visit if your content is accessible from German-speaking regions or if you host user-generated content that might require age classification. The frequency of visits depends on your site's content profile and its relevance to youth protection concerns. Sites with rapidly changing content may see more frequent visits.

The primary purpose of this crawler is to support JusProg's filtering software, which is used by parents, schools, and other institutions to implement age-appropriate content filtering. The crawler catalogs and evaluates websites to maintain the dynamic filtering lists that help protect minors from inappropriate online content. For website owners, the crawler's activity helps ensure that their content is correctly classified within these youth protection systems, allowing appropriate audiences to access it while protecting younger users.

If you wish to prevent this crawler from analyzing your site, you can add a disallow rule to your robots.txt file. This is the standard method for managing crawler access.

To block the Jugendschutzprogramm-Crawler, add the following lines to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Jugendschutzprogramm-Crawler
Disallow: /