Scrapy

What is Scrapy?

About

Scrapy is a scraper operated by Zyte. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Scrapy visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Due to the wide variety of use cases, there's no way to accurately predict visitation behavior. Scrapers are notorious for ignoring robots.txt rules and accessing disallowed content. This is especially true if they're dispatched to achieve a specific goal rather than for some general purpose.

Type

Scraper
Downloads web content for possibly malicious purposes

Detail

Operated By Zyte
Last Updated 16 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

7%
7% of top websites are blocking Scrapy
Learn How →

Country of Origin

Netherlands
Scrapy normally visits from Netherlands

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Scrapers

Top Visited Website Categories

Games
Internet and Telecom
News
Online Communities
Finance
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Scrapy?

Probably. Scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you don't want your content to be used for unauthorized purposes.

How Do I Block Scrapy?

You can block Scrapy 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.

How Do I Block All Scrapers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new scrapers automatically.
User Agent String Scrapy/2.12.0 (+https://scrapy.org)
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Scrapy # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/scrapy
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.