What is 008?

Often. 008 collects content at scale, and scrapers in this category may republish or resell it. The site being scraped rarely benefits, while duplicate copies can compete with its pages in search results. For context, 2% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for 008.

Yes. 008 is expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether 008 respects it.

It may try. Scrapers often ignore robots.txt, and some attempt to collect valuable paywalled or gated content. Authentication is the strongest protection; robots.txt alone does not restrict access.

Your site contains data 008's operator wants, such as prices, listings, contact details, or articles. Repeated visits generally indicate that your content remains a collection target.

Agent Analytics tracks 008 visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "008". Look for rapid, sequential requests across many pages. Because 008 does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.