outbrain
What is outbrain?
About
outbrain is Outbrain's web crawler that analyzes content on publisher websites to understand context and topics for content recommendation and advertising purposes. You can see how often outbrain visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
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.
Type
Detail
| Operated By | Outbrain |
| Last Updated | 19 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Robots.txt
Should I Block outbrain?
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.
How Do I Block outbrain?
You can block outbrain 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 | Mozilla/5.0 (Java) outbrain |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: outbrain # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/outbrain
Disallow: /
⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.