redditbot

What is redditbot?

About

redditbot is a fetcher operated by Reddit. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often redditbot 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 Reddit
Last Updated 7 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking redditbot
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Country of Origin

United States
redditbot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

News
Games
Hobbies and Leisure
Computers and Electronics
Finance
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Robots.txt

Should I Block redditbot?

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 redditbot?

⚠️ 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 redditbot 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; redditbot/1.0; +http://www.reddit.com/feedback) 
# robots.txt
# This should block redditbot

User-agent: redditbot
Disallow: /