ias_crawler
What is ias_crawler?
About
ias_crawler from Integral Ad Science performs digital ad verification, brand safety monitoring, and fraud detection across digital advertising channels to ensure quality media measurement. You can see how often ias_crawler visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
Agent Type
Expected Behavior
Intelligence gatherers crawl websites to collect business intelligence, competitive data, and market insights on behalf of their clients. These tools may use artificial intelligence to identify and extract information like pricing changes, product listings, brand mentions, or trademark usage. Crawl patterns are highly variable. Sites relevant to a client's monitoring goals may be visited frequently (daily or hourly), while others may never be crawled. They typically focus on specific pages or data points rather than comprehensive site crawls.
Detail
Operated By | Integral Ad Science |
Last Updated | 6 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block ias_crawler?
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 ias_crawler?
You can block ias_crawler 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 String | IAS Crawler (ias_crawler; http://integralads.com/site-indexing-policy/) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: ias_crawler # https://https://darkvisitors.com/agents/ias-crawler
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.