edisterbot
What is edisterbot?
About
edisterbot is an uncategorized agent. 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 edisterbot visits your website.
Type
Expected Behavior
Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.
Insights
edisterbot Visiting Your Website
Half of your 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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Access Control
Should I Block edisterbot?
It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.
Using Robots.txt
You can block edisterbot 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 |
|---|---|
edisterbot |
Should match instances of edisterbot |
# robots.txt
# This should block edisterbot
User-agent: edisterbot
Disallow: /
Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.
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