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

# GoScanner

> Unidentified scanner UA seen in our logs; no public documentation found for this name.

## Dossier

- Kind: Scanners & probes
- Operator: unknown
- Documentation: none found
- robots.txt tokens: none documented
- Feeds: unknown
- Respects robots.txt: Not documented
- Verification: Unknown
- Labels matched in our logs: goscanner

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

Unattributed probe traffic; exclude from audience counts.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 8 requests on 1 days; first seen 2026-08-02, last seen 2026-08-02; Dormant.
- 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