IFTTT

What is IFTTT?

About

IFTTT is an RSS feed fetcher that monitors RSS and Atom feeds to trigger automated workflows and integrations. It crawls feeds to detect new content and executes user-configured automation triggers when new feed items are published. You can see how often IFTTT visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By IFTTT
Last Updated 8 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
IFTTT normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block IFTTT?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block IFTTT?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block IFTTT 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 IFTTT/1.0 (https://ifttt.com/support) 
# robots.txt
# This should block IFTTT

User-agent: IFTTT
Disallow: /

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