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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

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

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

0%
0% of top websites are blocking ias_crawler
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Country of Origin

United States
ias_crawler normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

Food and Drink
Travel and Transportation
Games
News
Health
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.
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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.

How Do I Block All Intelligence Gatherers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new intelligence gatherers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt →
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.

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