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.
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Detail
| Operated By | Zyte |
| Last Updated | 10 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Scrapers
Top Visited Website Categories
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.
| User Agent String | Scrapy/2.8.0 (+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.