FloxisBot
What FloxisBot is
FloxisBot is the crawler of Floxis, an advertising exchange. It checks that ad inventory is authorised by its publisher, as the IAB Tech Lab ads.txt, app-ads.txt and sellers.json standards require of every exchange.
It identifies itself with this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FloxisBot/1.0; +https://floxis.tech/bot)
What it fetches
/ads.txtand/app-ads.txton root domains that send us ad requests, plus app developer domains listed in app stores./sellers.jsonon domains named in ads.txt files.- The home page of sites and app-store listing pages, to read the site title, language and privacy-policy link.
It doesn't index content, follow arbitrary links, or submit forms.
How often
- Files on sites with active traffic: about once a day.
- Other files: about once a week.
- Home pages and store listings: every few days for sites with active traffic, otherwise about once a month.
- New sites: when they first appear.
How it behaves
- When a site keeps refusing or rate-limiting requests, it waits longer between attempts, from one hour up to several days, and never sooner than the site's
Retry-After. - It follows at most 3 redirects, as the ads.txt spec allows.
- It keeps the last good copy of a file when a fetch fails.
Contact
For questions, to report a problem, or to ask us to change how we crawl your site, email [email protected].