Instapaper

What is Instapaper?

About

Instapaper is a content fetcher that crawls and downloads web articles to make them available for offline reading. It processes and parses web pages to extract readable text content for the Instapaper read-later service. You can see how often Instapaper 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 Instant Paper
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
Instapaper normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Food and Drink
Science
People and Society
Books and Literature
Hobbies and Leisure
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Instapaper?

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 Instapaper?

⚠️ 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 Instapaper 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 Instapaper/4.0 
# robots.txt
# This should block Instapaper

User-agent: Instapaper
Disallow: /

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