2ip bot

What is 2ip bot?

About

2ip bot is a developer helper operated by 2IP. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often 2ip bot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By 2IP
Last Updated 13 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking 2ip bot
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Country of Origin

Netherlands
2ip bot normally visits from Netherlands

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Online Communities
Science
Business and Industrial
Home and Garden
Games
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Robots.txt

Should I Block 2ip bot?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block 2ip bot?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

You can block 2ip bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String 2ip bot/1.1 (+http://2ip.io)
# robots.txt
# This should block 2ip bot

User-agent: 2ip bot
Disallow: /