What Is Potions?

Potions is a web crawler that fetches product feeds and crawls data from e-commerce websites to collect product information for commercial purposes. You can see how often Potions visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Agent Type

Expected Behavior

Scrapers extract data from websites for various purposes including research, price monitoring, content aggregation, lead generation, and unauthorized copying. Their behavior is highly unpredictable due to diverse use cases and operators. Scrapers are frequently configured to ignore robots.txt rules and may aggressively crawl sites to achieve their collection goals. They can range from respectful tools that identify themselves clearly, to aggressive bots that disguise their identity, overwhelm servers, and extract content without permission.

Detail

Robots.txt

In this example, all pages are blocked. You can customize which pages are off-limits by swapping out / for a different disallowed path.

User-agent: Potions # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/potions
Disallow: /

Frequently Asked Questions About Potions

Should I Block Potions?

Often yes. Many scrapers extract content for unauthorized reuse, competitive intelligence, or data resale. They may ignore robots.txt and crawl aggressively. Consider blocking unless you specifically benefit from the scraping activity or the operator has permission.

How Do I Block Potions?

If you want to, you can block or limit Potions's access by configuring user agent token rules in your robots.txt file. The best way to do this is using Automatic Robots.txt, which blocks all agents of this type and updates continuously as new agents are released. While the vast majority of agents operated by reputable companies honor these robots.txt directives, bad actors may choose to ignore them entirely. In that case, you'll need to implement alternative blocking methods such as firewall rules or server-level restrictions. You can verify whether Potions is respecting your rules by setting up Agent Analytics to monitor its visits to your website.

Will Blocking Potions Hurt My SEO?

Blocking scrapers typically has no negative SEO impact and may actually protect your search rankings. Scrapers often steal content for competing websites or spam farms, which can create duplicate content issues and dilute your search authority. Blocking unauthorized scrapers generally benefits SEO.

Does Potions Access Private Content?

Scrapers vary widely in their access scope. Many focus on publicly available content, but some may attempt to access password-protected areas, bypass paywalls, or use stolen credentials to access private content. Unauthorized scrapers may ignore access controls entirely and attempt to extract any accessible data, regardless of intended privacy boundaries.

How Can I Tell if Potions Is Visiting My Website?

Setting up Agent Analytics will give you realtime visibility into Potions visiting your website, along with hundreds of other AI agents, crawlers, and scrapers. This will also let you measure human traffic to your website coming from AI search and chat LLM platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

Why Is Potions Visiting My Website?

Potions likely found your site through automated web discovery, following links from other sites, or by specifically targeting your domain because it contains data the operator wants to collect. Your site may have been identified as containing valuable content for their collection purposes.

How Can I Authenticate Visits From Potions?

Agent Analytics authenticates agent visits from many agents, letting you know whether each one was actually from that agent, or spoofed by a bad actor. This helps you identify suspicious traffic patterns and make informed decisions about blocking or allowing specific user agents.