Cincraw
What is Cincraw?
About
Cincraw is an intelligence gatherer operated by CINC. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.
You can set up agent analytics to see when Cincraw visits your website.
Detail
Operator | CINC |
Documentation | http://cincrawdata.net/bot/ |
Type
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.
Insights
Cincraw Visiting Your Website
Other Websites
Access Control
Should I Block Cincraw?
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.
Using Robots.txt
You can block Cincraw or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. We recommend setting up agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
User Agent Token | Description |
---|---|
Cincraw |
Should match instances of Cincraw |
# robots.txt
# This should block Cincraw
User-agent: Cincraw
Disallow: /