ShooopBot

If you found ShooopBot in your server logs, this page explains exactly what it is and why it visited.

What it is

ShooopBot is the automated agent behind Shooopr, a diagnostic service for e-commerce storefronts. It fetches pages from a store so we can report on that store's performance, SEO, checkout and storefront health. A crawl is started either by the store's own operator from their Shooopr dashboard, on a schedule they configured, or by someone running a one-off free scan of a public storefront.

User-agent strings

Requests carry one of the following:

• ShooopBot/1.0 (+https://shooopr.com/bot)
• ShooopBot-SEO-Audit/1.0 (+https://shooopr.com/bot)
• Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ShooopBot/1.0; +https://shooopr.com/bot)

The suffix after ShooopBot- names the diagnostic making the request (for example SEO-Audit). A few specialised checks send their own token:

• Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ShprBotExposureAudit/1.0; +https://shooopr.com)
• Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ShprEmailTrust/1.0; +https://shooopr.com)
• shooopr.com TeaserBot/1.0

Some diagnostics also drive a real headless Chrome to measure page load and to walk a checkout. Those requests come from a browser and therefore send a standard Chrome user-agent rather than a ShooopBot token.

What it fetches, and how often

• Public storefront URLs: the homepage, a small number of collection and product pages, robots.txt, sitemap.xml and linked sitemaps, /products.json, and public policy pages.
• Checkout diagnostics add a cart and checkout page. They never complete a purchase, never submit payment details, and place no real orders.
• Volume is small and bursty: a single audit is typically a few dozen requests over a couple of minutes, then nothing. It is not a continuous crawl and it does not follow links across the wider web.
• Frequency is driven by the store's plan and schedule — commonly weekly or monthly, and on demand when a merchant clicks run.

robots.txt

ShooopBot reads and respects robots.txt. To block it entirely, add:

User-agent: ShooopBot
Disallow: /

Blocking it means audits of your store will report pages as unreachable. Rate limiting works too — the crawler backs off on 429 and 5xx responses.

Contact

Questions, complaints, or a request to stop crawling a specific domain: hello@shooopr.com. Include the domain and a sample log line and we will trace the request.

Operated by Milk Bottle Labs Limited, Milk Bottle House, 8 Mount Street Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland (CRO 568068).