tphotobot
EstiDraft •
Web Crawler
What is tphotobot?
EstiDraft's crawler page says tphotobot compares images on public pages with photographs supplied by rights-holding clients, with a human reviewing possible matches. It says the crawler follows robots.txt and Crawl-delay. The string observed on this site uses a different documentation URL from the operator's published complete user-agent, so its origin remains unverified.
User Agent String
tphotobot/0.1 (+https://crawler.estidraft.com/bot)
How to Control tphotobot
Block Completely
To prevent tphotobot from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block tphotobot
User-agent: tphotobot
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: tphotobot
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /public/
Set Crawl Delay
To slow down the crawl rate (note: not all bots respect this directive):
User-agent: tphotobot
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify tphotobot
Verification Method:
The observed full string differs from EstiDraft's published example, and the operator says the name can be copied. Contact the operator to check questionable traffic.
The observed full string differs from EstiDraft's published example, and the operator says the name can be copied. Contact the operator to check questionable traffic.
Learn more in the official documentation.
Detection Patterns
Multiple ways to detect tphotobot in your application:
Basic Pattern
/tphotobot/i
Strict Pattern
/^tphotobot\/0\.1 \(\+https\:\/\/crawler\.estidraft\.com\/bot\)$/
Flexible Pattern
/tphotobot[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/i
Vendor Match
/.*EstiDraft.*tphotobot/i
Implementation Examples
// PHP Detection for tphotobot
function detect_tphotobot() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/tphotobot/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('tphotobot detected from IP: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
// Set cache headers
header('Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600');
header('X-Robots-Tag: noarchive');
// Optional: Serve cached version
if (file_exists('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html')) {
readfile('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for tphotobot
import re
from flask import request, make_response
def detect_tphotobot():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'tphotobot'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False
# Django Middleware
class tphotobotMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for tphotobot
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
// Middleware to detect tphotobot
function detect_tphotobot(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /tphotobot/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('tphotobot detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'tphotobot';
}
next();
}
app.use(detect_tphotobot);
# Apache .htaccess rules for tphotobot
# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} tphotobot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} tphotobot [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]
# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "tphotobot" is_bot=1
# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /tphotobot/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for tphotobot
# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_tphotobot {
default 0;
~*tphotobot 1;
}
server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_tphotobot) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_tphotobot) {
root /var/www/cached;
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/index.html @backend;
}
try_files $uri @backend;
}
# Add headers for bot requests
location @backend {
if ($is_tphotobot) {
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noarchive";
}
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}
Should You Block This Bot?
Recommendations based on your website type:
| Site Type | Recommendation | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | Optional | Evaluate based on bandwidth usage vs. benefits |
| Blog/News | Allow | Increases content reach and discoverability |
| SaaS Application | Block | No benefit for application interfaces; preserve resources |
| Documentation | Selective | Allow for public docs, block for internal docs |
| Corporate Site | Limit | Allow for public pages, block sensitive areas like intranets |
Advanced robots.txt Configurations
E-commerce Site Configuration
User-agent: tphotobot
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&page=
Allow: /products/
Allow: /categories/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
Publishing/Blog Configuration
User-agent: tphotobot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Allow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: tphotobot
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
tphotobot
Robots.txt Name
tphotobot
Category
other
Respects robots.txt
Yes
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