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.

Agent Type

Scraper
Downloads web content for possibly malicious purposes

Expected Behavior

Scrapers extract data from websites for various purposes including research, price monitoring, content aggregation, lead generation, and unauthorized copying. Their behavior is highly unpredictable due to diverse use cases and operators. Scrapers are frequently configured to ignore robots.txt rules and may aggressively crawl sites to achieve their collection goals. They can range from respectful tools that identify themselves clearly, to aggressive bots that disguise their identity, overwhelm servers, and extract content without permission.

Detail

Last Updated 4 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

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Scrapers

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
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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.
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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