Overcast

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What is Overcast?

About

Overcast is a fetcher operated by Overcast Radio. 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. You can see how often Overcast visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Detail

Operator Overcast Radio

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Agent Analytics

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Top Websites

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Overcast?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Overcast?

You can block Overcast 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 Token Description
Overcast Should match instances of Overcast 
# robots.txt
# This should block Overcast

User-agent: Overcast
Disallow: /

Recommended Solution

Instead of doing this manually, use automatic robots.txt to keep your rules updated with the latest AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

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Global Bot & LLM Traffic

Fetchers

The overall volume of internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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