dcrawl

Last updated 11 hours ago.

What is dcrawl?

About

dcrawl is a scraper. 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.

Detail

Documentation https://github.com/kgretzky/dcrawl

Type

Scraper
Downloads web content for possibly malicious purposes

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.

Insights

Activity on Your Website

Half of your website's traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

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Other Websites

0%
of top websites are currently blocking dcrawl in some way
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Access Control

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.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token Description
dcrawl Should match instances of dcrawl

You can block dcrawl or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block dcrawl

User-agent: dcrawl
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can generate a robots.txt using the API or WordPress plugin that stays up to date with the agent list automatically. The WordPress plugin can also enforce your robots.txt and block agents who try to ignore the rules.

Set Up Your Robots.txt