Internet Archive

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What is Internet Archive?

About

Internet Archive's web crawler

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 Internet Archive?

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 Internet Archive?

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

ia_archiverShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block Internet Archive

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

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