Shap-User: Parallel's live-answer fetcher
Shap-User marks the requests Parallel's web APIs make for a person or an AI agent, as opposed to automatic crawling.
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At a glance
Shap-User in one table
- Company
- Parallel
- What it's for
- Live answer: fetched while answering someone's question.
- robots.txt token
Shap-User- Full user agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; Shap-User/0.1.0- Follows robots.txt
- Not stated. Parallel points site owners to ShapBot for controlling automatic crawls.
- How to verify
- Parallel publishes no IP list or other way to check, so a visit with this user agent can't be verified.
- Source
- Parallel's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
robots.txt
Allow Shap-User
Allow it. Each visit is a person asking an AI something your page helps answer, right now. Blocking it costs you that answer wherever the bot honours the rule.
User-agent: Shap-UserAllow: /Needed only if a wider rule blocks it: robots.txt lets every bot in by default. A bot named in its own group ignores the User-agent: * group, so repeat your private paths there as Disallow lines. A block in your CDN or firewall has to be lifted there.
A rule only changes what the bot reads next. To see whether Shap-User reads your pages now, and which ones, track AI crawlers on your server or see the full AI crawler list.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
From Parallel's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
Shap-User marks the requests Parallel's web APIs make for a person or an AI agent, as opposed to automatic crawling.
Parallel points site owners to ShapBot for controlling automatic crawls.
Parallel publishes no IP list or other way to check, so a visit with this user agent can't be verified.
Allow it. Each visit is a person asking an AI something your page helps answer, right now. Blocking it costs you that answer wherever the bot honours the rule.
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