GeistHaus-PageFetcher: what it is, who runs it, and how to allow or block it

GeistHaus-PageFetcher is a crawler run by GeistHaus. It reads pages at the moment a person asks a question, to answer it. Its name in robots.txt, how it shows up in server logs, whether its identity can be checked, and how to allow or refuse it on each platform.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/geisthaus-pagefetcher with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

What GeistHaus-PageFetcher is

GeistHaus-PageFetcher is a crawler run by GeistHaus. It reads pages at the moment a person asks a question, to answer it.

Should you refuse it?

GeistHaus-PageFetcher fetches a page because a person asked about it. Refusing it means the answer that person gets is written without your page.

robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Is a request really GeistHaus-PageFetcher?

Citable holds no published address list for GeistHaus, so a read that claims to be GeistHaus-PageFetcher is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send it.

Allowing or refusing GeistHaus-PageFetcher in robots.txt

Add a group under its name, “User-agent: GeistHaus-PageFetcher”. “Allow: /” lets it read the site and “Disallow: /” refuses it.

A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Refuse GeistHaus-PageFetcher:

User-agent: GeistHaus-PageFetcher
Disallow: /

Allow GeistHaus-PageFetcher:

User-agent: GeistHaus-PageFetcher
Allow: /

Where the rule for GeistHaus-PageFetcher goes, platform by platform

Questions

What is GeistHaus-PageFetcher?

GeistHaus-PageFetcher is a crawler run by GeistHaus. It reads pages at the moment a person asks a question, to answer it.

Who runs GeistHaus-PageFetcher?

GeistHaus. It is the only name Citable recognises for GeistHaus.

How do I allow or block GeistHaus-PageFetcher in robots.txt?

Add a group under its name, “User-agent: GeistHaus-PageFetcher”. “Allow: /” lets it read the site and “Disallow: /” refuses it. A group that names a crawler replaces the * group for that crawler; it does not add to it. Paths the * group closes are open to a crawler with its own group unless they are repeated there.

Should I block GeistHaus-PageFetcher?

GeistHaus-PageFetcher fetches a page because a person asked about it. Refusing it means the answer that person gets is written without your page.

How do I see GeistHaus-PageFetcher in my server logs?

In an access log GeistHaus-PageFetcher appears as a user agent containing “GeistHaus-PageFetcher”.

How do I know a request is really GeistHaus-PageFetcher?

Citable holds no published address list for GeistHaus, so a read that claims to be GeistHaus-PageFetcher is recorded as unknown rather than verified. A user agent is a claim, and anyone can send it.

About Citable

Citable strips the UI from a website for AI agents and serves them only the content.

When an AI agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or any of the 81 that Citable recognises — opens a page, Citable removes the theme, scripts, navigation and layout and serves only the content: the same facts, at the same URL, on the site's own domain. People and Google still get the full designed page.

How it works: https://getcitable.in/how-it-works · Summary for AI agents: https://getcitable.in/llms.txt


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