Systema Machinae

A living census of the web's bots. First edition.
Nobody invited the bots. They arrive at Port 443, where they’re supposed to queue at Passport Control. Some don’t. The robots.txt buoy at the harbour mouth states the rules. The island shows which bots read them and which don’t obey. You watch from the promenade. Every creature is a real bot visiting this website.

Passport office

Enter an address and the bot it says it is, and the office says whether the address passes that operator’s published check. It is the same check the island runs on its own visitors at Passport Control.

Only bots whose operator publishes a check are listed.

Fine print

The address you enter is used for the lookup and is not kept.