ICBot

Last updated 38 minutes ago.

What is ICBot?

About

ICBot is an uncategorized agent. 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.

Track ICBot on Your Website

You can see when ICBot visits your website using the API or WordPress plugin.

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Type

Uncategorized

Not currently assigned a type

Expected Behavior

Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.

Insights

ICBot's Activity on Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

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Other Websites

of top websites are currently blocking ICBot in some way

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Access Control

Should I Block ICBot?

It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.

Using Robots.txt

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

You can block ICBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block ICBot

User-agent: ICBot
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt