ImagesiftBot

Last updated 20 hours ago.

ImagesiftBot is an intelligence gatherer operated by Hive. 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.

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Detail

Operator	Hive
Documentation	https://imagesift.com/about

Type

Intelligence Gatherer

Searches for useful insights

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Insights

ImagesiftBot's Activity on Your Website

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Other Websites

of top websites are currently blocking ImagesiftBot in some way

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Access Control

Should I Block ImagesiftBot?

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.

Using Robots.txt

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

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

# robots.txt
# This should block ImagesiftBot

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
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.

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