ev-crawler

Last updated 7 hours ago.

What is ev-crawler?

About

ev-crawler is an intelligence gatherer operated by Headline. 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

Operator	Headline
Documentation	https://headline.com/legal/crawler

Type

Intelligence Gatherer

Searches for useful insights

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

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

of top websites are currently blocking ev-crawler in some way

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Access Control

Should I Block ev-crawler?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token	Description
`ev-crawler`	Should match instances of ev-crawler

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

# robots.txt
# This should block ev-crawler

User-agent: ev-crawler
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