HTTrack

What is HTTrack?

About

HTTrack is a scraper. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often HTTrack visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Due to the wide variety of use cases, there's no way to accurately predict visitation behavior. Scrapers are notorious for ignoring robots.txt rules and accessing disallowed content. This is especially true if they're dispatched to achieve a specific goal rather than for some general purpose.

Type

Scraper
Downloads web content for possibly malicious purposes

Detail

Last Updated 4 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

4%
4% of top websites are blocking HTTrack
Learn How →

Country of Origin

Hong Kong SAR China
HTTrack normally visits from Hong Kong SAR China

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Scrapers

Top Visited Website Categories

Business and Industrial
Finance
Health
Hobbies and Leisure
Computers and Electronics
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Robots.txt

Should I Block HTTrack?

Probably. Scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you don't want your content to be used for unauthorized purposes.

How Do I Block HTTrack?

You can block HTTrack 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.

How Do I Block All Scrapers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new scrapers automatically.
User Agent String Mozilla/4.5 (compatible; HTTrack 3.0x; Windows 98)
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: HTTrack # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/httrack
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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