scour.ing
What is scour.ing?
About
scour.ing is Scour's AI-powered web crawler that fetches content from RSS feeds and websites to create personalized content recommendations based on user interests. You can see how often scour.ing 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
Detail
Operated By | Scour |
Last Updated | 18 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Robots.txt
Should I Block scour.ing?
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 scour.ing?
You can block scour.ing 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 | ScourRSSBot/1.0 (+https://scour.ing/bot) |
# robots.txt
# This should block scour.ing
User-agent: scour.ing
Disallow: /