ArchiveBot

What is ArchiveBot?

About

ArchiveBot is an intelligence gatherer operated by Wikimedia. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often ArchiveBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By Wikimedia
Last Updated 20 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking ArchiveBot
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Country of Origin

Austria
ArchiveBot normally visits from Austria

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

Pets and Animals
Hobbies and Leisure
Books and Literature
News
Computers and Electronics
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Robots.txt

Should I Block ArchiveBot?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block ArchiveBot?

⚠️ 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 ArchiveBot 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 ArchiveTeam ArchiveBot/20230129.7ad0d38 (wpull 2.0.3) and not Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.90 Safari/537.36 
# robots.txt
# This should block ArchiveBot

User-agent: ArchiveBot
Disallow: /

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