01 · Operator
Who operates SemanticVisionsBot
- Company
- Semantic Visions, s.r.o.
- Type
- Other bot
02 · Behavior
What SemanticVisionsBot does
Semantic Visions scans about 2 million media sources in 12 languages. It classifies articles and tags companies, commodities, locations and events. Clients use the results for supply chain, compliance and market risk monitoring.
03 · Impact
Why SemanticVisionsBot matters for your site
If you allow it
- Your news content may feed risk and compliance monitoring
- Operator is an identified company
If you block it
- No direct traffic benefit
- No published bot documentation or IP list
04 · Allow
How to allow SemanticVisionsBot
robots.txt
User-agent: SemanticVisionsBot
Allow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "SemanticVisionsBot")
Action: Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules
# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.WordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: SemanticVisionsBot
Allow: /nginx
# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "SemanticVisionsBot") { return 403; }Apache
# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SemanticVisionsBot [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]05 · Block
How to block SemanticVisionsBot
Start with robots.txt. If SemanticVisionsBot keeps showing up in your logs, block it at your CDN or web server.
robots.txt
User-agent: SemanticVisionsBot
Disallow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "SemanticVisionsBot")
Action: BlockWordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: SemanticVisionsBot
Disallow: /nginx
# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SemanticVisionsBot") {
return 403;
}Apache
# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SemanticVisionsBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>06 · User agents
User agents we see for SemanticVisionsBot
The operator does not publish a full user agent string. Requests contain the token “SemanticVisionsBot”.
07 · Verification
Is it really SemanticVisionsBot?
SemanticVisionsBot’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.
Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026