VelenPublicWebCrawler

VelenPublicWebCrawler is the web crawler for Hunter.io, designed to analyze public internet pages. It is a data collection tool focused on business intelligence and professional networking information. The crawler identifies itself in server logs with the user-agent string Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VelenPublicWebCrawler/1.0; +https://velen.io). It uses a conservative approach, crawling only one page at a time with a minimum 2-second interval between requests to the same domain to minimize server impact. It only accesses publicly available pages.

VelenPublicWebCrawler is crawling your site to collect publicly available business information. It targets business-related data points such as corporate contact information, professional profiles, and company structure details. The crawler's visit is part of Hunter.io's data collection objectives to build business datasets. Its crawling frequency is deliberately measured to avoid creating a noticeable load on websites.

The purpose of VelenPublicWebCrawler is to support Hunter.io's mission of aggregating public business information to facilitate connections between organizations. The data it collects is processed to create specialized datasets for sales intelligence, recruitment, and market research. The crawler's work ultimately supports Hunter.io's business services, which include company search and contact discovery. While website owners do not directly benefit from being crawled, the bot is designed to operate ethically and with a light footprint.

To prevent VelenPublicWebCrawler from accessing your website, you can add a specific disallow rule to your robots.txt file. This is the standard method for managing crawler access.

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

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /