What is Grapeshot and how to unblock it?

Grapeshot (Oracle Contextual Intelligence) has been deprecated by Oracle alongside all the Oracle Advertising Products in September 2024 and is no longer supported.

Oracle Data Cloud (also known as Grapeshot) is an automated solution integrated with ADBRO that is used for content analysis and classification. Grapeshot is integrated with a number of Real Time Bidding (RTB) systems, so blocking Grapeshot may reduce Site advertising revenues.

Grapeshot works similar to search-engine robots, crawling Site pages and fully respects directives from robots.txt and may be blocked by firewall or web-server application. ADBRO Team constantly monitors Grapeshot availability for all connected Publishers and may contact you in order to perform required changes.

Unblocking with robots.txt

The following directive should be added to the robots.txt file on your Site:

User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow:

Unblocking with Firewall

Grapeshot uses 148.64.56.0/24 network (addresses from 148.64.56.0 to 148.64.56.255) to access your site.

Steps to unblock the given address range depend on which firewall software is used your Site.

Unblocking with Web-Server

Grapeshot can be identified by one of the following User-Agents:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrapeshotCrawler/2.0; +http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/crawler.php)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F70 Safari/600.1. 4 (compatible; GrapeshotCrawler/2.0; +http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/crawler.php)

Steps to unblock the given User-Agents depend on which web-server software is used on your Site.

Learn more about Grapeshot Crawler at Oracle: Oracle Data Cloud Crawler.

Learn more about robots.txt at The Web Robots Pages: About /robots.txt.