Brand Safety Web Crawler
GlancelotBot is a specialized content retrieval system developed and operated by HUMAN. It serves as a vital component in our mission to protect digital advertising spend and maintain a clean, secure ecosystem.
- Purpose: The primary function of GlancelotBot is to safely and efficiently retrieve and process the content of web pages. This data is critical for providing Brand Safety, Suitability, and Contextual Verification signals to ensure that advertising campaigns are placed only within appropriate and secure environments.
- Does not cause IVT: GlancelotBot does not cause invalid traffic (IVT) for ads. It does not cause ads to be served.
Identification in your logs (the User-Agent string)
You are seeing this specific traffic because GlancelotBot utilizes a transparent and self-identifying User-Agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 GlancelotBot/0.8.0 (+https://docs.humansecurity.com/advertising/brand-safety-web-crawler)
The exact string may vary over time. For example, the version number after GlancelotBot/ will increase. To reliably locate GlancelotBot activity, search for the substring "GlancelotBot/" in the user agent and base any allow or blocking rules on it.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding GlancelotBot’s traffic or its behavior, or require technical assistance, contact our technical team at support@humansecurity.com.
