Nicecrawler
Operated by NiceCrawler. Last seen today.
What is Nicecrawler?
About
Nicecrawler is an archiver operated by NiceCrawler. 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.
Type
Archiver
Snapshots websites for historical databases
Expected Behavior
Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.
Insights
Other Websites
Access Control
Should I Block Nicecrawler?
It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.
Using Robots.txt
| User Agent Token | Description |
|---|---|
Nicecrawler |
Should match instances of Nicecrawler |
You can block Nicecrawler or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.
# robots.txt
# This blocks Nicecrawler
User-agent: Nicecrawler
Disallow: /