PressEngineBot

What is PressEngineBot?

About

PressEngineBot is an automated verification crawler that confirms video game press coverage URLs exist and are viewable when submitted by journalists who receive review keys. You can see how often PressEngineBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

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.

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	PressEngine
Last Updated	17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking PressEngineBot

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Country of Origin

United Kingdom

PressEngineBot normally visits from the United Kingdom

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block PressEngineBot?

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 PressEngineBot?

⚠️ 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 PressEngineBot 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 PressEngineBot (+http://pressengine.net/crawl-policy)

# robots.txt
# This should block PressEngineBot

User-agent: PressEngineBot
Disallow: /