archive.org_bot

Last updated 1 hour ago.

CompliantCrawler

What is archive.org_bot?

About

Internet Archive's web crawler (alternative pattern)

Operator

Internet Archive

Documentationarchive.org

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Expected Behavior

Web crawlers visit websites on a regular schedule to index content for search engines or other services. They typically follow a consistent crawling pattern and respect robots.txt directives.

Should I Block archive.org_bot?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block archive.org_bot?

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User Agent Tokens

archive.org_botShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block archive.org_bot

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

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