AppLovin uses “AxonBot” to collect resources such as images and product metadata from advertiser websites. These help AppLovin improve the dynamic catalog experience for users by presenting up-to-date images and product information.
AxonBot is not a general-purpose web crawler. It does not perform broad site crawling or discover URLs on its own. It only accesses URLs that advertisers provide to AppLovin through integrations such as:
You can identify the requests that AxonBot makes to your website by looking for the following User-Agent request header in those requests:
Or, as this will appear in a typical web server log: