Parse.ly

What is Parse.ly?

About

Parse.ly is a developer helper operated by Parse.ly. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Parse.ly visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper

Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By	Parse.ly
Last Updated	10 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Parse.ly

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Country of Origin

United States

Parse.ly normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Parse.ly?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Parse.ly?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Parse.ly 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 (compatible; parse.ly scraper/0.16; +http://parsely.com)

# robots.txt
# This should block Parse.ly

User-agent: Parse.ly
Disallow: /