---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "docspider"
kind: "unidentified"
operator: "unknown"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "low"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/docspider.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/docspider/"
---

# DocSpider

> Self-described in its user-agent as "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DocSpider/0.1; +URL)"; no public documentation or operator found (not the same as DocSpotBot).

## Dossier

- Kind: Unidentified
- Operator: unknown
- Documentation: none found
- robots.txt tokens: none documented
- Feeds: unknown
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented
- Verification: Unknown
- Labels matched in our logs: docspider

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

An unidentified early-version (0.1) crawler, possibly a documentation scraper for LLM context; treat as unverified traffic until the redacted URL is checked.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 21 requests on 1 days; first seen 2026-10-12, last seen 2026-10-12; Returning.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- No public source found; the dossier describes only what the client declares and did.

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md