heritrix
Operated by Internet Archive. Last seen today.
What is heritrix?
About
heritrix is an archiver operated by Internet Archive. 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.
Type
Archiver
Snapshots websites for historical databases
Expected Behavior
Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.
Insights
Other Websites
Access Control
Should I Block heritrix?
It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.
Using Robots.txt
| User Agent Token | Description |
|---|---|
heritrix |
Should match instances of heritrix |
You can block heritrix or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.
# robots.txt
# This blocks heritrix
User-agent: heritrix
Disallow: /