Offline Explorer
What is Offline Explorer?
About
Offline Explorer is a scraper operated by MetaProducts. 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
Expected Behavior
Due to the wide variety of use cases, there's no way to accurately predict visitation behavior. Scrapers are notorious for ignoring robots.txt rules and accessing disallowed content. This is especially true if they're dispatched to achieve a specific goal rather than for some general purpose.
Insights
Other Websites
Access Control
Should I Block Offline Explorer?
Probably. Scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you don't want your content to be used for unauthorized purposes.
Using Robots.txt
| User Agent Token | Description |
|---|---|
Offline Explorer |
Should match instances of Offline Explorer |
You can block Offline Explorer or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.
# robots.txt
# This blocks Offline Explorer
User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /