Rattlesnakes By Mail

Observed

The Observations census of Rattlesnakes By Mail reports which crawlers fetched Rattlesnakes By Mail, how many requests each crawler made, and how many of the requests carried an identity that matched a published source. An observation is one logged request from a user agent that matches a documented entity pattern. Identity is confirmed by matching the request IP address against the vendor's published IP ranges, by reverse DNS where the vendor documents a reverse DNS method, or by Cloudflare's verified bot category when the request carries one. An unverified request means the request IP address did not match a published range, and an unverified request is not evidence that the user agent was spoofed.

8,487
requests to this site from AI crawlers, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08

An AI crawler is the program a company such as OpenAI, Anthropic or Google uses to read web pages. The chart counts the pages each crawler read on this site, day by day.

On a typical day the site logs about 88 requests from AI crawlers; the busiest day was 2026-09-24 with 2,684 requests, 31 times the typical day, when ClaudeBot made 1,141 requests and GPTBot 1,101.

  • ClaudeBot 2,977
  • GPTBot 2,314
  • Googlebot 1,328
  • Applebot 1,078
  • GoogleOther 562
  • OAI-SearchBot 76
  • Other crawlers 152
Requests per day from AI crawlersStacked columns of daily requests from AI crawlers, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. On a typical day the site logs about 88 requests from AI crawlers; the busiest day was 2026-09-24 with 2,684 requests, 31 times the typical day, when ClaudeBot made 1,141 requests and GPTBot 1,101.Requests per day01,0002,0003,000Sep 13Sep 21Sep 30Oct 8ClaudeBot, 2026-09-13: 1 request (day total 3)GPTBot, 2026-09-13: 1 request (day total 3)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-13: 1 request (day total 3)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-14: 535 requests (day total 701)GPTBot, 2026-09-14: 3 requests (day total 701)Googlebot, 2026-09-14: 79 requests (day total 701)Applebot, 2026-09-14: 6 requests (day total 701)GoogleOther, 2026-09-14: 76 requests (day total 701)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-14: 2 requests (day total 701)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-15: 24 requests (day total 289)Googlebot, 2026-09-15: 133 requests (day total 289)Applebot, 2026-09-15: 2 requests (day total 289)GoogleOther, 2026-09-15: 121 requests (day total 289)Other crawlers, 2026-09-15: 9 requests (day total 289)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-16: 24 requests (day total 768)GPTBot, 2026-09-16: 666 requests (day total 768)Googlebot, 2026-09-16: 30 requests (day total 768)GoogleOther, 2026-09-16: 46 requests (day total 768)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-16: 2 requests (day total 768)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-17: 24 requests (day total 60)Googlebot, 2026-09-17: 4 requests (day total 60)Applebot, 2026-09-17: 19 requests (day total 60)GoogleOther, 2026-09-17: 8 requests (day total 60)Other crawlers, 2026-09-17: 5 requests (day total 60)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-18: 469 requests (day total 1,205)GPTBot, 2026-09-18: 436 requests (day total 1,205)Googlebot, 2026-09-18: 78 requests (day total 1,205)Applebot, 2026-09-18: 9 requests (day total 1,205)GoogleOther, 2026-09-18: 206 requests (day total 1,205)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-18: 3 requests (day total 1,205)Other crawlers, 2026-09-18: 4 requests (day total 1,205)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-19: 31 requests (day total 61)Googlebot, 2026-09-19: 7 requests (day total 61)GoogleOther, 2026-09-19: 13 requests (day total 61)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-19: 2 requests (day total 61)Other crawlers, 2026-09-19: 8 requests (day total 61)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-20: 2 requests (day total 192)GPTBot, 2026-09-20: 3 requests (day total 192)Googlebot, 2026-09-20: 10 requests (day total 192)Applebot, 2026-09-20: 171 requests (day total 192)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-20: 4 requests (day total 192)Other crawlers, 2026-09-20: 2 requests (day total 192)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-21: 28 requests (day total 893)Googlebot, 2026-09-21: 711 requests (day total 893)Applebot, 2026-09-21: 148 requests (day total 893)GoogleOther, 2026-09-21: 1 request (day total 893)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-21: 2 requests (day total 893)Other crawlers, 2026-09-21: 3 requests (day total 893)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-22: 4 requests (day total 33)Googlebot, 2026-09-22: 11 requests (day total 33)Applebot, 2026-09-22: 11 requests (day total 33)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-22: 5 requests (day total 33)Other crawlers, 2026-09-22: 2 requests (day total 33)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-23: 16 requests (day total 200)Googlebot, 2026-09-23: 28 requests (day total 200)Applebot, 2026-09-23: 151 requests (day total 200)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-23: 2 requests (day total 200)Other crawlers, 2026-09-23: 3 requests (day total 200)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-24: 1,141 requests (day total 2,684)GPTBot, 2026-09-24: 1,101 requests (day total 2,684)Googlebot, 2026-09-24: 9 requests (day total 2,684)Applebot, 2026-09-24: 426 requests (day total 2,684)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-24: 5 requests (day total 2,684)Other crawlers, 2026-09-24: 2 requests (day total 2,684)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-25: 55 requests (day total 154)GPTBot, 2026-09-25: 3 requests (day total 154)Googlebot, 2026-09-25: 21 requests (day total 154)Applebot, 2026-09-25: 62 requests (day total 154)GoogleOther, 2026-09-25: 2 requests (day total 154)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-25: 4 requests (day total 154)Other crawlers, 2026-09-25: 7 requests (day total 154)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-26: 48 requests (day total 87)GPTBot, 2026-09-26: 3 requests (day total 87)Googlebot, 2026-09-26: 12 requests (day total 87)Applebot, 2026-09-26: 16 requests (day total 87)GoogleOther, 2026-09-26: 2 requests (day total 87)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-26: 3 requests (day total 87)Other crawlers, 2026-09-26: 3 requests (day total 87)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-27: 47 requests (day total 329)GPTBot, 2026-09-27: 61 requests (day total 329)Googlebot, 2026-09-27: 84 requests (day total 329)Applebot, 2026-09-27: 47 requests (day total 329)GoogleOther, 2026-09-27: 80 requests (day total 329)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-27: 5 requests (day total 329)Other crawlers, 2026-09-27: 5 requests (day total 329)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-28: 49 requests (day total 73)GPTBot, 2026-09-28: 3 requests (day total 73)Googlebot, 2026-09-28: 8 requests (day total 73)Applebot, 2026-09-28: 8 requests (day total 73)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-28: 3 requests (day total 73)Other crawlers, 2026-09-28: 2 requests (day total 73)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-29: 48 requests (day total 59)GPTBot, 2026-09-29: 4 requests (day total 59)Googlebot, 2026-09-29: 2 requests (day total 59)Applebot, 2026-09-29: 2 requests (day total 59)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-29: 3 requests (day total 59)ClaudeBot, 2026-09-30: 46 requests (day total 75)GPTBot, 2026-09-30: 3 requests (day total 75)Googlebot, 2026-09-30: 7 requests (day total 75)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-09-30: 3 requests (day total 75)Other crawlers, 2026-09-30: 16 requests (day total 75)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-01: 49 requests (day total 61)GPTBot, 2026-10-01: 3 requests (day total 61)Googlebot, 2026-10-01: 1 request (day total 61)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-01: 3 requests (day total 61)Other crawlers, 2026-10-01: 5 requests (day total 61)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-02: 49 requests (day total 69)GPTBot, 2026-10-02: 4 requests (day total 69)Googlebot, 2026-10-02: 4 requests (day total 69)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-02: 4 requests (day total 69)Other crawlers, 2026-10-02: 8 requests (day total 69)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-03: 48 requests (day total 67)GPTBot, 2026-10-03: 3 requests (day total 67)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-03: 2 requests (day total 67)Other crawlers, 2026-10-03: 14 requests (day total 67)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-04: 48 requests (day total 76)GPTBot, 2026-10-04: 4 requests (day total 76)Googlebot, 2026-10-04: 9 requests (day total 76)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-04: 5 requests (day total 76)Other crawlers, 2026-10-04: 10 requests (day total 76)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-05: 48 requests (day total 96)GPTBot, 2026-10-05: 3 requests (day total 96)Googlebot, 2026-10-05: 28 requests (day total 96)GoogleOther, 2026-10-05: 7 requests (day total 96)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-05: 2 requests (day total 96)Other crawlers, 2026-10-05: 8 requests (day total 96)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-06: 44 requests (day total 70)GPTBot, 2026-10-06: 3 requests (day total 70)Googlebot, 2026-10-06: 14 requests (day total 70)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-06: 3 requests (day total 70)Other crawlers, 2026-10-06: 6 requests (day total 70)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-07: 51 requests (day total 89)GPTBot, 2026-10-07: 4 requests (day total 89)Googlebot, 2026-10-07: 18 requests (day total 89)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-07: 3 requests (day total 89)Other crawlers, 2026-10-07: 13 requests (day total 89)ClaudeBot, 2026-10-08: 48 requests (day total 93)GPTBot, 2026-10-08: 3 requests (day total 93)Googlebot, 2026-10-08: 20 requests (day total 93)OAI-SearchBot, 2026-10-08: 5 requests (day total 93)Other crawlers, 2026-10-08: 17 requests (day total 93)Sep 24: 2,684Sep 18: 1,205
Requests per day from AI crawlers, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-08. ClaudeBot made 2,977 requests, the most of any crawler. Source: this site's own request logs, each request checked against the vendor's published identity. Method: /method.

An unverified request is a request whose source IP address was outside the vendor's published ranges and whose reverse DNS did not resolve to the vendor; an unverified request is not proof of spoofing.

Today, not yet rolled up

Human-looking traffic today: 399 requests, counted only in aggregate.

EntityRequestsVerifiedFormats
GPTBot33xml
OAI-SearchBot1313html,json,md,txt
ChatGPT-User11html
ClaudeBot4949txt,xml,html
Googlebot22txt,html
Bingbot77html

Summary, last 30 days

Verified share is request-weighted: sum of verified requests divided by sum of requests over the window, not a mean of daily shares.

EntityRequestsVerified requestsVerified shareFormatsFirst seenLast seen
ClaudeBot29772975100%csv, html, json, md, txt, xml2026-09-132026-10-08
GPTBot23142310100%csv, html, json, md, xml2026-09-132026-10-08
Googlebot132862847%csv, html, json, md, txt, xml2026-09-142026-10-08
Applebot10781078100%csv, html, json, md, txt, xml2026-09-142026-09-29
GoogleOther562562100%csv, html, json, xml2026-09-142026-10-05
Bingbot117117100%html, txt, xml2026-09-152026-10-08
OAI-SearchBot7676100%txt2026-09-132026-10-08
Claude-User191789%html, json, md, txt2026-09-152026-09-20
ChatGPT-User1010100%html, json2026-09-182026-09-27
PerplexityBot66100%html, json, txt2026-09-252026-10-07