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JobTargetDistributionBot is the name of the bot JobTarget uses to distribute job postings — submitting, updating, confirming, and removing job listings on job boards and partner sites on behalf of JobTarget's employer customers. JobTarget has permission from its customers to provide these services. It accesses posting pages to submit and update listings and reads posting pages to verify a listing published successfully. The bot does not crawl sites broadly or follow unrelated links — it only accesses the specific pages tied to job postings it manages.

Identifying JobTargetDistributionBot

You can identify JobTargetDistributionBot by the HTTP User-Agent request header:

User-Agent: JobTargetDistributionBot/1.0

Blocking JobTargetDistributionBot

Use a robots.txt file:

User-agent: JobTargetDistributionBot

Disallow: /

Or block these IPs:

  • 3.208.55.158/32
  • 54.165.57.172
  • 3.213.16.220
  • 34.228.211.0

Verifying JobTargetDistributionBot

The User-Agent header can be spoofed. To confirm a request actually came from JobTarget, match the source IP against the list above. Reverse DNS (PTR records) resolving to a jobtarget.com hostname is in progress and will be added here once live.

Contact

distributionsupport@jobtarget.com