ArchiveBot
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What is ArchiveBot?
About
ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC file, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (or other archive sites). NOTE: This bot is NOT run by the Internet Archive! Learn more: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot
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Did you find ArchiveTeam ArchiveBot/20170106.02 (wpull 2.0.2) in your logs?
If you've seen ArchiveTeam ArchiveBot/20170106.02 (wpull 2.0.2) in your website logs, it indicates that ArchiveBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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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 ArchiveBot?
This bot is marked as non-compliant, which may mean it doesn't respect robots.txt or engages in aggressive crawling behavior. You may want to consider blocking it if it's causing issues for your site.
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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block ArchiveBot?
You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
ArchiveBotShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block ArchiveBot User-agent: ArchiveBot Disallow: /
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