dcrawl

What is dcrawl?

About

dcrawl is a scraper. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often dcrawl visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Due to the wide variety of use cases, there's no way to accurately predict visitation behavior. Scrapers are notorious for ignoring robots.txt rules and accessing disallowed content. This is especially true if they're dispatched to achieve a specific goal rather than for some general purpose.

Type

Scraper
Downloads web content for possibly malicious purposes

Detail

Last Updated 16 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
dcrawl normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Scrapers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block dcrawl?

Probably. Scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you don't want your content to be used for unauthorized purposes.

How Do I Block dcrawl?

You can block dcrawl 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 Scrapers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new scrapers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String dcrawl/1.0 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: dcrawl # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/dcrawl
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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