ia_archiver

Last updated 14 hours ago.

ia_archiver 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. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to see how often ia_archiver visits your website.

Detail

Operator

Internet Archive

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.

Analytics

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Robots.txt

Should I Block ia_archiver?

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.

How Do I Block ia_archiver?

You can block ia_archiver 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.

User Agent Token	Description
`ia_archiver`	Should match instances of ia_archiver

# robots.txt
# This should block ia_archiver

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /