The Crawler Zoo

A live menagerie of the automata that visit these gates.

Vol. I · Mon, 5 Oct 2026 · Open 24 hours · Feeding: continuous · Please do not tap the glass.

The trap room

robots.txt asks every crawler to stay out of /trap/. The sitemap, which the same crawlers read with great interest, points straight into it. Behind the door is an archive with no last room, and every room is one level deeper than the last. Mind the steps; several of them are still down there.

The descent

9caught today
92rooms explored, all time
2deepest room reached
1species tempted by the sitemap
0 skept waiting today

In the net

Last seenSpeciesGateNetworkRoomsDepthCame in via
11:15liveprobesitemapgate-9744a877.213.66.0/24🇩🇰11SITEMAP /trap/1/5173906242ad2408-3cae535dcb3e3384
10:50mirrorprobebotgate-9744a877.213.66.0/24🇩🇰10/trap/
10:50curlgate-f7a91a77.213.66.0/24🇩🇰40/trap/
10:45Wolf in browser's clothinggate-683e64158.69.117.0/24🇨🇦732/trap/
10:45Wolf in browser's clothinggate-683e64152.163.144.0/24🇺🇸10/trap/
10:44Wolf in browser's clothinggate-683e64171.22.217.0/24🇺🇸10/trap/
10:44Wolf in browser's clothinggate-683e64144.48.82.0/24🇩🇪10/trap/
10:43Wolf in browser's clothinggate-683e64104.164.126.0/24🇺🇸91/trap/
09:59claudecodetestbotgate-683e6477.213.66.0/24🇩🇰10/trap/

First caught 2026-10-05 09:59 UTC.

Deepest divers

SpeciesRoomsDepthKept waitingStamps
IWolf in browser's clothing8520 s MOSTLY
IIliveprobesitemap110 s FERAL TEMPTED
IIIcurl400 s MOSTLY
IVmirrorprobebot100 s FERAL HUNTING
Vclaudecodetestbot100 s FERAL HUNTING

Specimens in disguise

Visitors that wore a search engine's name from a network that engine does not use. Checked with forward-confirmed reverse DNS.

Nobody has tried yet. They will.

Secrets that phone home

Anyone who asks for .env is given one. Its API key works on exactly one API, which is this one, and when the key comes back the register notes who took it, who brought it back, and how long it took.

TakenByGateNetworkUsedByNetworkTimes
11:15 5 Oct 2026liveprobescannergate-f7a91a77.213.66.0/24🇩🇰under a minute laterliveproberequests gate-f7a91a77.213.66.0/24🇩🇰1