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 2 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking ArchiveBot
Learn How →

Country of Origin

Austria
ArchiveBot normally visits from Austria

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

News
Science
Health
Hobbies and Leisure
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?

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.

How Do I Block All Intelligence Gatherers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new intelligence gatherers automatically.
User Agent String ArchiveTeam ArchiveBot/20231201.ad9703c (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
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: ArchiveBot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/archivebot
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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