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

# ZeroBot

> Self-described in its user-agent as "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ZeroBot/1.0; +URL)"; no public crawler documentation found (unrelated to the ZeroBot bot-protection vendor or ZumBot).

## 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: zerobot

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

Unidentified crawler with a generic name; treat as unverified until the redacted URL is checked.

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 8 requests on 2 days; first seen 2026-10-22, last seen 2026-10-23; New this week.
- 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