InternetArchiveBot

What is InternetArchiveBot?

About

InternetArchiveBot is a developer helper operated by Internet Archive. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often InternetArchiveBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper

Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By	Internet Archive
Last Updated	14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking InternetArchiveBot

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Country of Origin

United States

InternetArchiveBot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

News

Sports

Health

Books and Literature

Science

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Robots.txt

Should I Block InternetArchiveBot?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block InternetArchiveBot?

⚠️ 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 InternetArchiveBot 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 IABot/2.0 (+https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot/FAQ_for_sysadmins) (Checking if link from Wikipedia is broken and needs removal)

# robots.txt
# This should block InternetArchiveBot

User-agent: InternetArchiveBot
Disallow: /