factset_spyderbot

What is factset_spyderbot?

About

factset_spyderbot is a web crawler operated by FactSet that gathers financial and business data from websites to support their comprehensive financial data platform and analytics services. You can see how often factset_spyderbot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

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.

Type

Intelligence Gatherer

Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By	Factset
Last Updated	14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking factset_spyderbot

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Country of Origin

Unknown

factset_spyderbot has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block factset_spyderbot?

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.

How Do I Block factset_spyderbot?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block factset_spyderbot 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block factset_spyderbot

User-agent: factset_spyderbot
Disallow: /