MuckRack

Last updated 12 hours ago.

What is MuckRack?

About

MuckRack is an intelligence gatherer operated by Muck Rack. 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 MuckRack Visiting Your Website
You can see when MuckRack visits your website using the API or WordPress plugin.

Detail

Operator Muck Rack

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

MuckRack'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.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Other Websites

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of top websites are currently blocking MuckRack in some way
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Access Control

Should I Block MuckRack?

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
MuckRack Should match instances of MuckRack

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

# robots.txt
# This should block MuckRack

User-agent: MuckRack
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