HIFIBot
What is HIFIBot?
About
HIFIBot is an automated web crawler operated by HIFI, a financial services company for musicians and creators, that retrieves royalty earnings statements and payment data from various music platforms and portals. You can see how often HIFIBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.
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Detail
Operated By | HIFI |
Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Robots.txt
Should I Block HIFIBot?
Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.
How Do I Block HIFIBot?
You can block HIFIBot 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 HIFIBot
User-agent: HIFIBot
Disallow: /