LightspeedSystemsCrawler

LightspeedSystemsCrawler is the official web crawler for Lightspeed Systems, an ed-tech company that provides web filtering solutions for K-12 schools. It is a content classification crawler that scans websites to evaluate and categorize their content for educational filtering. The bot identifies itself with the user-agent string LightspeedSystemsCrawler Mozilla/5.0 (...). Its function is to analyze a site's content and add it to Lightspeed's filtering database, which is then used by schools to manage internet access for students.

The LightspeedSystemsCrawler is visiting your website to categorize its content for use in its web filtering products. It is evaluating whether your content is appropriate for students in K-12 educational settings. The crawler analyzes text, images, and other media that may need to be filtered in a school environment. The frequency of its visits depends on factors like your site's popularity with educational users. The crawling is part of the normal operation of Lightspeed's filtering services.

The main purpose of this crawler is to support Lightspeed Systems' content filtering and student safety solutions. These products help schools comply with laws like the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) by protecting students from harmful online content. The data it collects is used to categorize websites into groups (e.g., educational, adult content), allowing school administrators to set appropriate access policies. For website owners with educational content, being properly categorized by this crawler ensures your site remains accessible in schools.

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

To block this crawler, add the following lines to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: LightspeedSystemsCrawler
Disallow: /