Dark Visitor

What is Dark Visitor?

About

Dark Visitor is a web crawler operated by Dark Visitors, designed to collect data from various online sources for analysis and reporting. You can see how often Dark Visitor visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Dark Visitors
Last Updated 12 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Dark Visitor
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Country of Origin

United States
Dark Visitor normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Dark Visitor?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Dark Visitor?

⚠️ 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 Dark Visitor 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; Dark Visitor/1.0; +https://darkvisitors.com) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Dark Visitor

User-agent: Dark Visitor
Disallow: /

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