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

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	Scour
Last Updated	1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking scour.ing

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Country of Origin

United States

scour.ing normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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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?

⚠️ 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 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: /