archive.org_bot

What is archive.org_bot?

About

archive.org_bot is the Internet Archive's web crawler for the Wayback Machine, systematically crawling and preserving publicly accessible web pages for historical record and research. You can see how often archive.org_bot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.

Type

Archiver
Snapshots websites for historical databases

Detail

Operated By Internet Archive
Last Updated 2 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking archive.org_bot
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Country of Origin

United States
archive.org_bot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Archivers

Top Visited Website Categories

News
Autos and Vehicles
Food and Drink
Arts and Entertainment
Health
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Robots.txt

Should I Block archive.org_bot?

It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.

How Do I Block archive.org_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.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block archive.org_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 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot +http://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot) Zeno/62be009 warc/v0.8.85 
# robots.txt
# This should block archive.org_bot

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

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